Throughout 2020 and 2021, a lot of us are spending our time in home, adjusting an isolated, repetitive new life away from sickness.

What if Isolation and Repetition brings comfort? And what if those are the only escape from hard times?

Our everyday lives are often repetitive that we sometimes find crushingly boring, meaningless, and less-than-alive. It is a cycle that keeps repeating. A seamless system of repetitions.

Wake up, eat, go to work, go home, shower, eat, sleep.

Such is life under capitalism.

But at times, repetition is the only comfort we can have in a troubled world. In a world where we cannot control a lot of things to our comfort, the controlled repetition of everyday life can be an escape from the uncontrollable, constantly-changing external lives of us.

Dreariness and Repetition is a thing we can comfortably expect and control. It’s easy to handle workdays without new things, because we know what will happen, and we know how we will handle it.

We have autonomy in repetition. We have freedom in isolation. Isolation brings us comfort.

But what if the repetition breaks down? Will we be glad or angry