Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Nov. 2010
Daily is understood to be what is daily, that is, it happens frequently and by case is habitual.
That which happens daily and is habitual and is opposed to the extraordinary
It is closely linked to everything that has to do with everyday life or with the daily lifestyle. If we analyze the term, we can say that everyday acts as a qualifying adjective and as such serves to designate all those phenomena that are related or occur in the everyday, ordinary, everyday life of a person, as well as a group of people or society.
The opposite of the everyday is the extraordinary, the unusual: for example, living a earthquake, while the daily routine is for example going to sleep every night, to work or study every morning, to the supermarket every week to do the purchases that correspond.
Association with the lifestyle that someone leads. The everyday is not the same for everyone and is made up of the activities that are carried out every day
Daily life is a phenomenon that has to do with the lifestyle that each person leads in their day to day and which can be completely different from one case to another but more or less the same for that particular person. In other words, one person can carry out an activity on a daily basis, go to the gym, for example, while on the contrary another does not, while for the person who does Exercise every day, this is part of their daily life, while for the other it will not be, and it will be something common not to do physical exercise and for case it will be extraordinary some day do
gymnastics.Thus, while for one person the daily routine is to work during the day and sleep at night, for another it may be just the opposite.
This tells us that the concept of everyday life, as with most of the concepts used in social Sciences, it is a completely subjective since each person or individual establishes their own routine of actions, tasks and experiences according to what they interests you, what you need to do or other fortuitous events that can also mark your everyday life.
Usually, when we speak of everyday we are referring to the things or events that make up the routine of most of the people who live in societies. western or westernized: sleeping, waking up, going to work, eating, entertaining in various ways, and returning home to repeat the same routine every day following. As mentioned before, this routine can have many variations in each particular case but it always tends to recur in each person's life at least for periods of time more or less long.
Therefore, this concept is closely related to routine, which refers to that old custom that becomes a habit acquired and that generally leads to doing things without thinking about them.
There are many daily actions that by the mere fact of being carried out every day in a systematic way end up becoming automatic at a certain point, then, we do not have to think, they are done almost automatically.
For workers, getting up at this or that time, beyond using an alarm clock or not, is part of their routine and they do it without thinking, the same is true for the rest of the hours. daily and routine actions that will surely follow the act of getting up: going to the bathroom to wash your face, shower, prepare breakfast, get dressed, in between other
The concept has a Latin origin and was used with the same reference as nowadays already in Ancient Rome
Ultimately, everyday events are those normal, common, not extraordinary, it is the latter that normally go down in history as such and not those associated with everyday life because they eventually end up becoming on traditions.
When approaching this concept, we cannot ignore the relevance it has had and has in the arts and in the literature Throughout history and today, since visual artists and authors have always liked to show and immortalize the everyday life of each era through their creations.
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