- a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole
- an organized set of doctrines, ideas, or principles usually intended to explain the arrangement or working of a systematic whole
- an organized or established procedure
- an organized society or social situation regarded as stultifying or oppressive
It’s amazing the sorts of things we can group into systems. Of course, plenty of things already need them, or are built through or around them, but really, there are all sorts of perfectly harmless circumstances in our day-to-day life that mysteriously make their way into a system now and again. Things like waking up- some people stay in bed until they’re awake; others will wake up as they leave the comfort of their sheets. Another is eating breakfast; some people take the bowl out of the cupboard and place the spoon in it, and pour the cereal, following with the milk. But then there are those who take out the bowl and hold the spoon in one hand while pouring with the other. They have been for years. It’s how they wake up and leave the house for work in the mornings without ever questioning themselves, their existence, their lifestyle, or why, for 30 years, they haven’t once bothered to shut the refrigerator door behind them.
A system, in our normal, daily lives, could be considered definition 1: A group of items forming a whole, through regular interaction. It sounds very similar to a Habit, does it not? But that is only what could be
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