A routine lifestyle, where you were reasonably sure of what you're likely to encounter day by day, so that you plan accordingly?
Or, a lifestyle with a totally flexible (or non-existant) time-table, in which most decisions and reactions to situations were based on intuition and/or instinct?
Or do you already have the ideal life pattern for your personality?
2007-09-17 01:11:10 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
If I had the choice, I'd rather be flexible and spontaneous...right now though, my life is pretty routine and it gets old after a while ☻
2007-09-17 01:17:10 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ωέςтєяиΝСģαζ♥ 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I have done both very well and very badly, depending on when I was visiting these lifestyles. I find that having a routine helps me accomplish what I would like to but not getting stuck in a routine takes my willingness to be flexible in my routine life. I can get stuck in either situation to where I want something different and make sacrifices to whatever lifestyle I am missing at the time and I then wish again for the other so what I have to do is again, have both. Be flexible so that I can be spontaneous and leave the kitchen until after a game of dominoes with my dad, husband, and son (a fun game we all like and play pretty evenly) rather than insist that everything has to be done before the fun.
ramble, ramble......my answer is this....life is tough, where is my instruction manual and what language is is written in?
2007-09-17 08:48:20 · answer #2 · answered by scsspace 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Right now, I am married with small children, so the routine thing is a MUST. I did the totally flexible lifestyle (with the exception of a full time job) prior to my marriage at 27 y/o and that was great. Who knows, maybe when the empty nest sets in, flexibility will be an option again.
2007-09-17 11:09:17 · answer #3 · answered by mamainapaddedcell 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Even if you are the most disorganised person in the world, it is impossible not to have a routine lifestyle, as there are some things that you have no choice but have to do day in day out.
I wouldn't say that I've the ideal life pattern and I wouldn't like to have one to be honest, as if you plan every single thing you do life gets boring and its doesn't get exciting anymore.
Well, I just plan the most important tasks and the rest, I just get by.
2007-09-17 11:43:20 · answer #4 · answered by soraya 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My simple ideal life pattern: I Do What Makes Me Happy
and
Do Unto Others As I Would Have Them Do Unto Me.
2007-09-17 09:36:29 · answer #5 · answered by lillianroh 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I need both -- I like a firm, solid base of a life with a routine and schedule, and then I like to embroider it as it comes along.
Without that solid base, I'm lost -- there's nothing to put my frills on, and I spend more time thinking than doing.
2007-09-17 17:26:40 · answer #6 · answered by Madame M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Id rather have a routine down. I like routines and I hate straying from them. I have a routine for everything.
2007-09-17 16:01:05 · answer #7 · answered by lonestargirl79 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Id choose the totally flexiable lifestlye. I already have it....I rarely ever have to be somewhere at a certin time. I take care of myself, but i have no boss. Everytime i go somewhere its totally unexpected. I sleep whenever,never, and all the time, im always alone, people are always here. Im home all the time and not all all... its always different but the same...
2007-09-17 09:14:36 · answer #8 · answered by CaLiBoRn&rAiSeD 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
my lifestyle is the second one already, but sometimes I do get into a routine, like sleeping at night and swimming daily.
2007-09-17 08:28:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes! (figuring that out should drive you up a wall J.) I O.D'd on my ornery pills this a.m. sorry (well, not terribly).
2007-09-17 09:35:22 · answer #10 · answered by marlynembrindle 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋