Existence is understood as life. The term generally refers to the activity carried out by an organic being or, more precisely, to its ability to be born, develop, reproduce and die. Every day is what you do every day.
The concept of daily life, therefore, refers to the actions that a person performs on a daily basis. Some are common to all individuals (waking up, eating, sleeping), while others depend on the reality of each subject. Take the case of a 10-year-old boy. Your daily life may include waking up, having breakfast with your parents, going to school, playing with friends, watching TV, eating dinner at home, and sleeping. If the routine varies, it will include situations that are not everyday: this is what will happen if, one day, the child has to go to the doctor because he has a stomachache. This activity (going to the doctor) is not everyday for the little one.
For adults, daily life often includes work activities. For many people, therefore, daily life involves spending several hours in an office, a factory, etc. Philosophers and sociologists often argue that everyday life creates meaning and generates naturalness. In this way, everyday life is “safe” since it minimizes uncertainty. The daily life of many people who make up a community generates traditions and customs. That is why it is common for most people in a certain country to have lunch at the same time and choose similar foods, for example. It should be noted that human beings are generally unaware of this phenomenon until we travel abroad, especially if we visit a country with customs very different from ours. Since activities such as eating and sleeping are usually associated with certain times of the day since we are born, many people do not dare to question this relationship, but accept it as part of normality. When we leave the normal plane and face a reality different from ours, several things can happen: that we simply value it as one more possibility within the range that encompasses the organization of human beings in society, but then we return to ours; that we try to adapt to become part of it (something that happens when we move abroad); that we openly reject and despise it.
Everyday life is a concept as relative as love, but at the same time it can become as rigid and indisputable as this: we do not hesitate to get up in the morning and have breakfast, go to work, return to dinner and go to bed, or we do not even ask ourselves if we should continue to love our loved ones every day; We do all this and more with apparent normality, but that does not mean that there are not small cracks inside us, but that many times we neglect them so as not to threaten our stability. When a person leaves the country because they are not satisfied with the quality of life, or when they have a disagreement with the family because they do not feel a true union with them, a very important rupture occurs, which few dare to experience. . Leaving behind the everyday is difficult, since every second of the new life reminds us that we are “newcomers”, beings that belong to another reality and that we must strive to fit in and feel comfortable. However, despite the fact that everyday life seems to be the space where we feel safe, many times our true happiness is at risk.