Perhaps we are lines of code…
Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops, as tight and as closed as the Hosts do, seldom questioning our choices…" ~ Doctor Robert Ford, Westworld
This quote has been rolling around my head lately, leaving me amazed at its truth. Have you thought about your daily routine? I know my weekday mornings especially are locked into the same basic loop day in and day out, as if running lines of code from a script. Can I change it? Of course I can, but it snaps back to what it was if the new routine doesn't prove useful. The script changes on its own over time in large and small ways, but the basic…functionality…remains unchanged.
There are many other examples of this script-running in my life. What about you? Can you truly say you're "drastically off-narrative"?