Sunday, January 31, 2010

HABITS

It's 11.36 pm on Sunday night.Another 24 mins to go before the week ends and my resolution of writing a weekly blog expires.Which leads me to think -do we make habits or habits make us?Often one goes to sleep at 2 am.;the next day you do the same and so on.Or you may fall into a habit of reading one particular newspaper first even if quality wise the other newspaper we subscribe to may not be that different.A college friend of mine believes in going out through one particular gate everyday inspite of the fact that there are at least five gates in total and one such gate(besides the particular one)may be nearer to where he is at that moment.Again there is a question of the habits related to our personal hygiene,like eating our nails in nervousness or even nose picking;it may not be socially approved but its'still done.It's hard to get out of this no matter what other people say.More often that not it may not be consciously done.Of course there are some things that we do on a regular basis rather consciously.Like thinking in a very determined manner of the next vital thing to do when we're supposed to be studying(at least that is so in my case).That's just one instance.In any case habits supplement us wherever we go and are by definition an inexorable part of our life.
Looks like my resolution stays intact.Cheers.p.s-note to thyself :should really start practising what thy preaches.

2 comments:

  1. Yeah habit is second nature i guess... but they change over time. thats the fun part! hopefully smiling always may be selected by you as a habit :)

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  2. I think its all about Latent learning...Isn't it ?

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