Reconcilinng the mundane. Reconciling the everyday.

A Chase for nothing

Layers, elevation and anonymity

Just an escalator hanging around in town

As our lives progress, the biggest yet most mundane change for most is the shift from school to work. We realise we may never escape the constant loop of 9 to 5 for the next 50 years of our lives, yearning for the day that we can be freed from this endless cycle. It is evident from how we fall prey so easily to get rich quick schemes and “mentoring” on escaping the 9 to 5.

Our jobs do take up majority of our day, but that does not excuse us from fully living our lives outside of that time. It is human nature that we seek out meaning and individualism, we also seek the contrary of a place of belonging and community.

Life is Absurb. The faster we come to terms with the hypocracy of the world, the faster we come to appreciate how chaotic the mundane can be.

Plastic wrapped on a crossing light so rain water does not enter.

Some crossing in Chinatown

Most days from the office, i take the same route and same rounds, seeing the same scenes. But in doing that mundane, we can quickly pick out the extraordinary. The effort to step out and seek this extraordinary is what has truly made it so fun. Time is linear, not a constant loop for the 50 years of your working life. Everyday is a new day worth taking in.

Go out and look for that extraordinary in your everyday and no day will ever be mundane.