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Also known as daily life, routine life

routine processes in people's daily and weekly cycle

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Candid photograph of four men eating breakfast, a morning routine Everyday life, daily life or routine life comprises the ways in which people typically act, think, and feel on a daily basis. Everyday life may be described as mundane, routine, natural, habitual, or normal.

Human diurnality means most people sleep at least part of the night and are active in daytime. Most eat two or three meals in a day. Working time (apart from shift work) mostly involves a daily schedule, beginning in the morning. This produces the daily rush hours experienced by many millions, and the drive time focused on by radio broadcasters. Evening is often leisure time. Bathing every day is a custom for many.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “everyday life” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.