Taking Control: How I'm Tackling My Worst Habit

No one is perfect and that’s what makes us unique as individuals. Each day, me make mistakes and we have the choice to either learn from them or not. Everyone of us has a bad habit which we either picked up from someone or somewhere or we developed it on our own.

Developing a bad habit is a very quick process. One minute you’re criticizing someone for this and the next minute your find yourself doing the exact same thing. As they say, we are most likely to pick up some habits from people we hang around ,be it good or bad and I can attest to this. Cos I remember a time I unknowingly picked up a bad habit from a close friend of mine which I didn’t even realize until someone drew my attention to it.

Speaking of bad habits, I don’t really know if this is a bad habit or not but yeah, let’s call it my bad habit. Currently, I would say a very bad habit of mine which has for the longest time stayed with me is me not reaching out. I’m really terrible when comes to staying in touch with people constantly which makes them think I don’t care. But, I do. I just don’t have the time and energy to be always talking to people. Before I talk to someone, I have to add it to my schedule cos it takes a lot for me to even place a phone call to a friend unless it’s an emergency.

I know this didn’t something to be proud of and that is why I have taken it upon myself to work on this habit of mine. Even with my busy schedule, I always make sure to at least talk to one or two people be it family or friends each day. Maybe to someone it might not be much, but for me it’s a huge step. People don’t change in a day and so I’m taking this journey slowly and at my own pace, in hopes that one day, I would do better and learn to reach out more. But until then, we keep pushing because the journey is the reward!

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