It is said that early to bed and early to
rise makes a man health, wealthy and wise. Early to bed and early to rise is a
good habit. A habit means repetition of the same action in similar
circumstances.
All men have habits. There are good and bad
habits. They are of different kinds. Habits are acts which men indulge in to
satisfy their needs. These habits are developed or learn from different
sources. Drinking water, taking breakfast, lunch and dinner and sleeping at
nights are habits, based on instinct.
We are social beings. We cannot live in
isolation. We need each other to survive. In doing so, we all should have a sense
of choice. Ability to choose good habits so as to fit in the society. Respecting
elders, wishing good morning, good evening, good night are good habits.
Men live in groups. These groups can
influence some habits. Alcoholism, drug abuse, carelessness, disrespect, having
no fear that God exists are bad habits that can be acquired from groups.
There are other bad habits which an
individual develop without any external influence. Human body is vulnerable to
sweet things. It addicts badly and integrates its urges to your psych. It wishes
for good things to satisfy its needs….to pursue its happiness. Making your
mentality also vulnerable to think right. Lying to you that it’s the best thing
to do for the time. It tells you….take a sip to calm yourself down….or have sex….you
are grown up and human after all. Celebrate with vodka…cheers for the success..
you are young, wild and free for thinking right. When your body lies to your
mind. It then makes the bad to be good, and to be the needs of the soul. And because
all men need happiness and peace, the fight of the body needs and soul finally
end with most of the youth choosing bad habits.
We choose not to study hard, work hard. We choose
to waste the time we have to getting easy money, engaging in illegal
businesses. Yes, life is hard. But do the choice we make to survive lead to a
good end or a dead end? Can’t you really stay alive whilst abstaining from all
those?
If you feel you can’t, then don’t addict, don’t
make it a need in your life. You were born with only three needs in your life, food,
clothes and shelter. If you would like to add other needs, choose the good
ones. Choose praying hard, exercising, working hard, concentration and
discipline to be the needs of the soul and not otherwise.
Education is based on the principle of
habit formation. Repetition makes learning easy. Learning a language i.e.
speaking, reading and writing is based on habit. Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. Similarly education helps in
the development of good habits like punctuality, attention, concentration,
cooperation, discipline etc. Excelling in your education is both a habit and a
developer of other good habits.
Smoking, drinking alcohol, drugging,
speaking untruth, teasing the weak, committing acts of theft may all be considered
as bad habits. Habits are easy to acquire but difficult to give up. They have a
great hold on people and are not easily broken. So it is better not to acquire
a bad habit than try to give it up later.
Good habits
lead to good manners. Good manners give us good friends; good friends mean good
environment; good environment leads to a happy and peaceful life.
source; Today's Youths
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