Taurus
The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
A routine that no longer fits your life still gets performed because the body remembers how to do it and the mind has not caught up to say stop. You keep setting the alarm for the same time, taking the same route, checking the same things in the same order, even when the day that follows feels wrong from the first step. The routine was built for a version of yourself that needed what it provided, but now it provides something else entirely: the weight of going through motions that serve no one. What you mistake for comfort is actually the exhaustion of carrying forward what should have been left behind weeks ago.