To think life is mostly the everyday boring

[77777y]

Things such as walks or just day to day living rather than experiencing new things or visiting different places doing activities

I realised the other day, how much of life is just moving things from one place to another - utterly dull.
Moving children from bed to bath to breakfast table to car to school to home etc.
Moving shopping from car to kitchen to cupboards to saucepan to plate etc.
Moving dirt from floor to hoover to bin to outside bin.
I just spend the majority of my life moving stuff around. Completely everyday boring.
Absolutely agree @77777y

It is what you make it tho.

That's why we dance and find people to enjoy it with and buy nice things to use.

Boring is a luxury meany people would envy

Not to be an arsehole just a reminder that these are going to be the good old days

People in a warzone, illness or crisis would be glad of mundane safety. Find joy in everyday life.

Well yes. A lot of what we do day to day is because we have to, not necessarily what we want to do. Laundry needs doing, toilets need cleaning, bills need paying.
But hopefully one is able to balance the routine with more enjoyable pursuits, be that climbing a mountain, visiting a museum, meeting with friends or reading a book.
There is also joy to be found in the day to day. Using your mother’s special teapot at breakfast, cooking your child’s favourite dinner, watering the rose bush you planted to remember your grandfather.
For example I like it when I walk the dog past the local primary school and hear the children out playing. Their shrieks and shouts remind me of when my kids were little. In early Spring I love walking by the new crocuses and spotting the first daffodils. Mundane yes. But delightful too.

If you don’t like your life, change it, OP.

Perhaps one of the secrets of living well is to find joy in the every day stuff.
I don't have a big (or even expensive place) but I love seeing things shiny clean, and properly arranged...it makes cleaning a happy thing to do.
I have little part-time job and drive down the same country lanes to get to it every day...but I love the views over the fields, the trees, the change in seasons, the chance passing of a pheasant on the road, or sometimes deer.

There is happiness everywhere...chat with a neighbour, a bargain at Tesco, the smell of newly baked biscuits, a satisfying day at work. There are dozens of lovely things every day, I really don't find life boring. I'm not just saying that, I genuinely do...

I do wonder if, as human beings, we have lost the ability to delight in the ordinary? As if we can only be happy if we're doing something new and therefore "exciting", or having new experiences or buying new things. How sad if so.

Well that sounds like my life, and I'm perfectly content with it. It's about learning to enjoy the small simple pleasures, and being grateful for what we have rather than envying others who might appear to have it all.

I think I am quite lucky in the interesting life stakes, but anyway OP - can you say more about your situation and what you'd like it to be - I'd have thought things could improve, both in finding the small joys and space for bigger adventures

A lot of (most) people’s lives is mundane, interspersed with a holiday or a nice event. The key to appreciating the mundane is gratitude. If you are grateful for what you have it will not seem negative

Have you ever heard the saying ‘Life is what happens when you are waiting for something to happen?’ It’s so true!

Mundanity is completely under rated

God, I love boring and would do anything to just sit and read and drink tea all day.

For various financial reasons I’ve been a blue arsed fly for last 3 years with a huge amount of stress, boring looks so desirable.

You have to learn to love the everyday a good song while you’re doing laundry, an audio book when you’re driving the kids places, dancing round the kitchen while cooking supper

So make sure the everyday is interesting.

Try a new recipe each week.
Broaden your reading rather than just what the same TV programs.
Sign up for a new hobby course each year.
Run a new route

Indeed. If you live in constant state of fight or flight then "boring" sounds like utter heaven.

If your life is dull then it's 100% on you to change it. Whether that means changing your circumstances or whether it means reframing how you think about your circumstances is up to you but the experiencing your life as boring is 100% your responsibility.

100% correct and I’ve never heard anyone else’s say it so thank you.
The meaning of life is moving things from one place to another. The end.

Nope..the only thing i do find very tedious is providing food daily for my picky and culinaraliy challenged teens. I love my teaching job, I like that I'm the only adult in the house so it's my way on everything. I tend to wake early so get huge pleasure from an hour or three in the morning with a fire, cat, tea and book before hitting the ground running for 8-10 hour work day. I am v v careful with my bucket of fucks and only hand them out after careful consideration of will it make a difference and if not, I dont.

this is totally true The epitome of my life right now.

Add in caring for a parent with advanced dementia and yes, life is boring and relentless.

Day to day life is repetitive but doesn’t need to be boring, boring is a state of mind. Find the joy in the everyday eg I’m watching the great tits right now in and out of the nest box in front of my window, earlier I watched the squirrels jumping tree to tree in front of my living room. A boring person might say, so what but nature is amazing if you take time to use your eyes. Go for walks (use pushchairs for little ones, wheelchair if you need one) and explore your surroundings. At home listen to music and dance, play a board game, find an old tv programme on YouTube to reminisce about.

we can’t be out doing “exciting” things aka expensive things daily, find joy in your life rather than living for one off occasions.

For me this would be a mindset issue. How can a walk be boring when there are birds to listen for, a beautiful blue sky to see, the warmth of the sun on your back! Sorry I’m one of those boringly positive people who try to see the joy in everything! I even bought a beautiful Radley umbrella so I can enjoy the rain!

In the last year I have started running which I never thought I would and I love it. I’m not fast but it’s not about that. I have also been making an effort to read regularly and i have picked up the flute which i used to love as a child. We’ve also worked on our garden so it more adult friendly than it was before. My kids are 18 and 16 so not at the moving constantly stage but exams, driving and university applications all have their stresses…

Life is what happens while we’re busy making plans.

Well yes but you need the everyday boring to enjoy the other things. Having clean clothes, a tidy house means when the weather is nice I can enjoy the garden without thinking about mundane jobs that need done. If I have the bills paid, through mundane work, I can plan things that interest me. The mundane lays the foundation for the more enjoyable, interesting and exciting things