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| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Life is probably just a string of bad habits that we come to learn from. Your interests change, you shrug off old ones with impertinence, the only 'bad' ones are the ones that recur to make us aware of our inability to move past them by fault of will, alone.
I guess I'd rather like to live my life with smoking or drinking, getting 8 hours of regular sleep each night, never having to deal with the consequences of my own negativity or reckless critique of others. Move past my own fears, my own laziness, my own fears of laziness - but I don't suppose I can will myself out of those sorts of habits, I can only learn to live with the supposed faults of my own personality, and hopefully understand the cause better that I might move past them before I am forced again to deal with the collateral angst of being an upright ape, though I don't suppose anyone learns a damned thing without a certain degree of pain.
That said, I rather like my bad habits. Why else would I maintain them so diligently? |
Yeah you know, I thought of that. What are we if not our bad habits? Aren't they, in a way, the things that make us "unique"? If you took away all of the choices that we make that we consider bad habits, where does that leave us but all living the same sort of lives and having the same kind of experiences? Bad habits are a key indicator of each person's idiosyncrasies.
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