Habits, good and bad, need nourishing environments
for them to prosper into habits we can depend on. A habit has to first,
be recognized, then nurtured from passing fancy into the life support tool we
want them to become. Their negative or positive effects on us only
important as the importance we assign them.
If I think a habit has gotten out of control, I will
most likely choose to stop said habit. If I have no problem with it, I go
on my merry way, happy as if I had a brain. And yes, sometimes a habit
can become so onerous as to raise concerns of those around me. I would be
lying if I said none of my habits irritated others.
My childhood tendency to always ask "why"
about anything caused my parents no end of frustration. Their frustration
only fed my new habit of how to irritate parents because they deserve it.
I found I could punish them to the third or fourth "Because I said so" before I
had to duck and cover. Wonderful game that lost its luster when I learned
around age eight, there are too many answers to the question "why". If I wanted an answer, I more often than not, had to find it for myself.
But I digress, and I did it right out of the blocks.
A post that has a designated time and place in
my communiques to the World should be experienced as the rules I have written
demand. No roaches around? Guess I will have to roll up a couple
joints and smoke em just so I can smoke a roach or two on Smokin Roaches
Monday.
Damn. Two joints may be too tough to take just
to make two roaches. .... Hmm Oh well, its more about
the effort than the result. Right?
Keep it 'tween the ditches
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4 comments:
Mike:
Great post! The idea of habits as a life support tool is pretty damn profound, actually.
So, how is your refraining from tobacco going now? Do you still refrain?
For me, I hit the two year mark away from my beloved pipe and pipe tobaccos about two weeks back. Yes, I have refrained.... but truth-be-told I sometimes feel akin to a “dry drunk” about it. I still think about pipe tobacco, still have dreams about it.... every day.... the only thing I haven’t done is smoke any.... yet.
PipeTobacco
Pipe - No Tobacco yet. I guess I am well into my 3rd year now. Its odd, but I hardly think about Bacca now until someone or something kicks a trigger. At this moment I am thinking how nice it would be to roll a cigarette. ........ Nah. It ain't worth it. Cost me too much to quit. Not going to blow it now.
Now we are legal. At least in the State.
I was and still not a weed smoker..last time I smoked (the new stuff is stroooong) I laid in bed freaking out cause I was afraid I would forget how to breath..
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