A thought for when you’re in a miserable, repetitive rut

“How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.”
— Margaret Drabble

The British novelist Margaret Drabble provides today’s quotation, which certainly resonates when I think about tasks I’ve done, sometimes with growing disdain, until I’ve realized that no one is being served by it. Sometimes this happened at work (and the tasks were generally self-assigned) and sometimes they were domestic. What a feeling — a little bit of liberation, a little bit of What the hell was I thinking? — when you give it up and move on.

I’m aiming to post a quote here every day, and it has not felt at all like that busy work Drabble describes. Here’s how they’ve been stacking up so far.