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Take this colloquy which we often hear every day:

All in the day’s work.

Everyday life is expected and normal, as one may say:
I had to finish these house chores before I sleep —all in
the day’s work. This phrase is sometimes used as an ironic
comment on an unpleasant but not abnormal situation. This
expression possibly alludes to the day’s work, reckoning a
course of action during the 24 hours which we have in a day.

That is Realisation?*

That is expected of a human being living in this world.
It encompasses a milder but common forms of discomfort
and distress, like long hours of work, feeling let down by a
loved one, a headache, feeling frustrated, disappointed, hurt,
inadequate, depressed, upset, etc.

In the worst scenario, it includes the gross forms of stress,
bodily pain, illness, epidemic, pandemic and trauma we can
all imagine, such as a broken leg, seasonal flu, grappling with
natural disaster, devastated or the violent death of a loved

one — or getting the diagnosis of a terminal disease.

And it includes the tension in the mind, restlessness,
sense of contraction, depression, preoccupation, unease,
boredom, sense of being an isolated self,
something missing in life, something just not fulfilling,
etceteras.

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