I feel the same way :L

For me, the simplest things help the best. I never rush out of the classroom at the bell and stray from my class's set paths during drills. I try my best to take different routes to places both in and out of school when I can. I play with different options and try my hardest to avoid having a set schedule for every single day.

Just mix it up when you have the chance and know you're one less zombie in the crowd.

School makes it the hardest, honestly. Even if you're not learning a single goddamn thing, you HAVE to go. You're conditioned to move a certain way at each type of bell. You have set schedules that repeats five days of the week for the majority of the year. It's just suffocating. All you can do is try your best to mix it up when you're there and when you're out to make the most of what you can.

>>4 You know, you don't have to spam personal with pointless images every time you post.

But anyway, you're not going to break out of it by hoping people will magically appear and start the change for you. Life isn't a story book. You're not Cinderella. If you want to break your routine, you've gotta get out and do it yourself :I

>>5 Sorry for the images, but you know i always try my harder for break the routine, obviosly i try not to do something crazy, like leaving school or something, but no matter how hard i try it, never change, i think i just have too wait for finish the school or something..

>>3 I hope you're not saying school shouldn't be in routine...

I used to feel like I was stuck in a routine until I realised, that is exactly what books/shows/movies/video games are for. Because in my current situation it is pretty hard to make drastic variations every day, I rely upon them to gift me extreme changes and fantastic adventures. They all work as a great substitute until (and when) you can do it on your own.

>>5 I agree, if you really want to change routine in a set time, it falls upon your shoulders to execute it. But I thought my social life was stuck in a routine until a girl that is so similar and exciting to me just dropped in my lap. Those kind of things do happen sometimes, you will never see it coming though.

>>7 You right, i guess i'll just have to try hard for escape the routine and wait results coming, i just hope those results come soon, because i'm close to reach my limit :/

>>7 School shouldn't be in routine. School beyond your first year of middle school doesn't teach you anything useful in the first place; anything you need to learn for your profession you'll have to relearn in college anyway. We all know it's just a temporary pen to keep hormonal kids in check until they're mature enough to do something with their life. Big deal.

But at least give us some damn block scheduling so it's not the same exact thing day after day after day after day after day, week after week after week after week, after month after month after month after month after month after month after month after mo- you get my point.

I appreciate the few (at least, around here) mid/high schools and many colleges that do have block scheduling far more than the schools that don't. It's all so redundant. You learn to block everything out. Your body moves on its own from class to class as it's conditioned to the bell unless you friend pops up to break the cycle. What the teacher says goes in one ear and out the other more and more throughout the year not because you're any less interested--you were interested so little at the start of the year that that's not possible--but because your mind is already set to the daily, weekly, monthly schedule and is used to their voice every single day saying almost the same thing. Having the same school routine every day is probably one of the stupidest things an education system can do, in my opinion.

Sorry for getting off topic. Just wanted to respond to that ;I

ug life IS a routine, unless you somehow get transported to some cool fantastical world of awesomeness. but alas no, the world we happen to exist in is actualy quite droll...

OP-san.
YOU WATCH GINTAMA DON'T YOU.
This makes me happy. Sorry for not being on topic

>>12 if you could not put suffixes at the end of everyones name, thatd be great.

In response to the actual post:
Katsura-san, school is a strenuous routine! Please don't wait until after school to change the way you live, because almost everything which is systematic is monotonous and full of routine, nothing can be changed without you changing yourself!
So challenge yourself! Talk to people you have not spoken before, answer more questions in classes where you usually stay quiet and become mysteriously silent in classes where you usually speak. Take notes with different colors, treat yourself to a nice lunch at some points, stop to smell flowers on your way anywhere, post up Dollars-posters and see if you can change someone's life!
I implore you, do at least one thing from this list, or something similar! Make a difference, I know you can. :)
(Sidenote to BarabiSama - our traditional school system is fundamentally flawed! Here's an essay about the toxic nature of school culture: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html )

Until people can come up with a school system that is equally sustainable and efficient, stop complaining.

School was built to cater for the majority, the sheep. The shepherds should be smart enough to teach themselves.

>>14 Many thanks dear Saika-san, i promise i will try those things, hopefully something will change!

What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure — that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.

>>17 and yet you still believe in a lie.

>>18 what makes you think god is a lie?

>>19 No, he's saying that God hating homosexuals is a lie. Can we get back on topic?

Some people actually like the monotony of repetitiveness, but those that don't have a tougher time. Sometimes I DO feel like that. The best way to get away from the same-old-same-old is to do something spontaneous. Go eat at somewhere completely off the charts. Go on a spending spree, if possible. Take a day off work or school and spend it people watching. Think about deep things. Or you could do a bunch of the stuff on the missions board, that's fun!

>>20 I thought that this summer I would get a break from working at a hospital which I have come to find is not what I want to do at all, it plays on so many of my personal issues that I can't advance in that field of work. So I applied to work at a park only during summer, guess what I'm doing now? WORKING IN THE SAME HOSPITAL FOR 5 HOURS WITH NO BREAK. I'm trying to stay calm but I wanted a break from this job. I hate hospitals, I can't stand the constant fear that if I screw up one thing I could cause someone to die. I'd rather do any thing in the world than have my routine be constantly doing a job I HATE.

>>21 Thats rude :S, your problem make mine very small, i guess you could keep trying find a new job

...and why was the first post deleted? :I