I’ve been thinking about the phrase, “We are all creatures of habit”.

Routines are fundamental to human experience. They ground us. They give us meaning. They give us freedom. Without routines, we become uncoupled and we drift. We become alienated from the world around us. We lose our sense of meaning and purpose.

I noticed this, early on after I ruptured my Achilles tendon the first time. My every day experience was tossed out of the window and I landed in a kind of no man’s land where, ...