HABITS AND RABITS


Habits die hard. Yeah. Old saying. I know. But why do habits die hard? Well, let me first define what a habit is. A habit is any pattern of behavior or action tendency that is relatively stable and enduring, in the process becoming an almost inseparable part of an individual’s personality. It can also be called a relatively independent, enduring and self-perpetuating conditioned response. As a matter of pure coincidence, habit, the word, rhymes with rabbit, the word .but while habits die hard, rabbits die easy. This is a strange aberration, a very striking observation. What? Dumb comparison? Illogical connection? There’s no such thing as a connection between rabbits and habits? Hang on fellas. This is interesting. Why?? Let me explain. Well, cuz when everything that breathes or walks or lives (rabbits, for instance, and other animals) dies so cheap at the hands of us homo sapiens, why do habits form such an unrelenting exception? Hmm. That’s a tough question. Really difficult. Why don’t habits die? In the above mentioned comparative analysis between rabbits and habits, we can have an answer. But before attempting an answer, we should take note of the fact that out of the two, only one has fur, the other is thick skinned, like a rhino, but that doesn’t mean habits and rhinos are similar things, cuz rhinos have a horn, while habits have thorns which keep pricking you and never let go and never let you forget about them. Anyways, back to our very sincere attempt at answering a very grave problem. We humans have a penchant for killing things, but only those things that are “other”. I mean, things that are outside of us and in one way or another, don’t belong to us. There lies the sense of victory, which we derive from such acts. It is for this sense of victory & gaining control over others that we kill things, anything and everything, animals, people, property, emotions….everything. It makes us feel powerful, gives us the proverbial shot in the arm or wherever. This assumption also automatically implies that we can’t kill habits cuz they exist within us; they feed on us & thrive on our weaknesses. They are, if it can be put across thus, so “ours” that we are attached to them, they are our own & although we acquire them from the society, we gradually come to internalize them.

Smoking, my friend, is a habit. It is NOT, mind it, a rabbit. Well, yeah, agreed that both are generally white & have a soft & furry tail, but that’s the only possible similarity that can be drawn.



finish it up later guyz.....gottta ctch a quick...yeah...well...smoke.!!!