“Routines and habits are the Known, protecting us from the Unknown. Habits are also called home. Habits tame the raw wilderness of existence into the civilized comforts of everyday life. Unfortunately, as we all know, habits gradually domesticate all the wildness and energy out of life. So much energy gets bound up in routines and habituated patterns, keeping them alive, that your life goes dead instead. Thus, if you want to discover again the wild side of life, you have to leave “home”; you have to break or dissolve your habits in order to release the energy locked up inside them.”
–Ed Buryn, Vagabonding in the USA (1980)
November 12th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Ed Buryn always says it so well. I read Vagabonding in Europe and North Africa back in ‘80 and it inspired me to 12 years living and travelling over there.
February 16th, 2009 at 7:08 am
It all depends whether your life is filled with good habits or bad habits. Certainly good habits turn us into healthy and happy people where as bad habits are the ones that rob us of our energy and confidence.