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Daily writing prompt

Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.

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After having a child with my wonderful wife, holding that comforting warmth of 36.4°C in the cold weather is the most satisfying moment of the day. The gentle scent of yesterday’s body lotion and shampoo, combined with the soft sound of a peaceful snooze, always makes me happy. I know am in the safe zone. But for how long is considered happy? Sometimes I love to play games for hours until my dopamine wears out. But for how long is considered okay? Where is the line? Also I love traveling overseas with different cultures , experiencing new taste and new scene. But for how long? Should I be traveling for 7 days? 200 days?

Answering the question of having a ideal day, is not a matter of WHAT I should do during the day. Important question is distribution of duration of the subject. In that sense sadly I never experienced an ideal day. Mostly because I don’t plan well for each day. I don’t set a clear goal everyday. I don’t recognize how I long have I spent for my actions. I always had gone with the flow, doing what I want based on my feelings. Sometimes I sprint in the morning, but others I sleep till noon. Some might say I am waisting my time, but other might say I am living the moment. This short essay of my experience was also not anticipated. I just did it because I felt like it. Because of this non of my daily life had been the same. And also because of this I choose to love my life.

Let’s say if I had a perfect plan for the day. I can do that with GPT with perfect setup based on psychological , biological researches. Wake up. Drink water. 30min workout , Read a book etc…Even if I had the most fulfilling day and feel like a huge achievement. Wouldn’t doing the same thing over and over again with no changes in life feel like a robot? I mean literally, exactly the same. I couldn’t fathom how its like but oh, wow how dreadful that must be.

Thus Ironically my ideal day is that I have no ideal day. The absence of an ideal makes every day ideal in its own way.

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.”
-Kungfu Panda-