Daily writing prompt

What are your daily habits?

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Finding myself in a bit of a conundrum with this. This prompt has been done, I’m sure of it, just in the six little months I’ve been a part of the WP family. I don’t like repeating a post. But at the same time I want to keep my streak. So what to do?

I couldn’t find the last post where I wrote the exact same answer to a slightly differently worded prompt but I will try and make this as interesting as possible.

No, who am I kidding, it’s not going to be interesting lol, my life is pretty mundane. I guess I enjoy having a boring life. I find it enjoyably boring. I was thinking of this the other day, I remember when my parents were around my age and even older, my sisters and I encouraging them to go out and socialize, attend community dances whenever one was held. I recall really bugging them to get out and have some fun. I remember saying to them, you guys are so boring, oh my god go do something, don’t be such sticks in the mud, all your friends are going….

They socialized minimally with other people or couples, as far back as I can remember. It used to make me mad and annoyed. Which now, I find funny.

I wanted them to have friends, go out, be cool and I could never understand why they didn’t want to. Their relationship always reminds me of that song by Alabama, She and I.

Fast forward twenty-five years. Now it’s my turn to be boring and love staying home. I totally understand it now. It’s funny how that happens. Or has happened to me anyway. I used to be a very social person, loved going out. But there’s been a remarked metamorphosis the last ten years.

Part of it is that now my partner also likes staying home, part of it might have been because of Covid, that taught us to stay home whether we liked it or not. I think mostly it’s because of my age. Big big difference between thirty-seven and forty-seven. I’m far from washed up but staying out or even awake past ten pm is truly unappealing.