I saw a writing prompt on this blogging platform earlier today. The question was simple: What bores you? For me, that’s an easy one. My answer has never wavered: routine. Nothing — and I do mean nothing — drains the color out of life faster than having identical days stacked neatly on top of each other like those sad beige file folders. And the ironic part? I am, in fact, living a near-perfect replica of the same day, five times a week. Same schedule, same obligations, same annoying alarm clock every morning. There was a time when I was an expert at escaping monotony. I could afford to be spontaneous.…