What is meant by everyday life? For a secondary school student in Hong Kong, you wake up at six in the morning, get to school by eight, have lessons until four in the afternoon with a lunch break at noon; after school, you may hang out with your friends for a while and arrive home by six, then you have to finish the assignments, take a shower and have dinner, until ten you go to sleep. This daily routine occupies five out of seven days of your week, this weekly routine occupies nine months out of a year, the same situation applies to the labor force too, just that ten to eleven months of the year are occupied. This is repetitive and seems to be meaningless, the society has taught us to follow this routine but why are people following?
In my opinion, “living” has never been meaningful when you would die anyway, but we are the ones to decide on whether our lives are meaningful. Following the society’s pattern, live a stale but stable life could be meaningful to someone; however, if you are not okay with this, you have to be creative and imaginative to live your own career, to live out of the system and achieve your meaningful life.
An insightful reflection on your personal experience of quotidien life – How does this relate to our reading of Certeau? Was there a particular passage that prompted you?