Hello ecotrain community, I came across the community weekly question while I was going through communities on the platform. I am a newbie and I have not had any help on how particularly the platform works so I decided to read any articles I find in any community to see if I can be posting there. Then I found an ecotrain question of the week and decided to put my entry in.
Question of the week is: "What habits or addictions, both good and bad, have you developed and which you would like to get rid of?"
Habits are hardly recognized as they are part of lives and what makes up our personalities as a person whether good or bad. Habits are behaviors that we show in a repeated sequence, that synchronize with our daily activities, and also that turn into our unique features or signatures. For this post, I will first be addressing my good habits and then my bad habits.
My Good Habits.
My adoptive parents told me that when I was a child, I loved to do cleaning chores and I can say this is true. I don't like dirty environments because it irritates me and makes me cranky. I am always meticulous about cleaning when I am doing and I hate when I scatter what I have cleaned up.
Another good habit of mine is reading. I love to read a lot. Sometimes I fantasize about going to our community library and staying there throughout the day without my siblings coming to call that my parents need me at home. I love books and I don't have a specific genre because I can go for anything.
Helping people if I can. With all that I have experienced in life, I can say that this particular habit of mine has gotten me into a lot of trouble. When I see people needing help, I quickly assist if I can. There is this incident that happened to me that made me promise myself that I will never help anyone again. It happened in the market when my mom and I went to get some clothes for an upcoming wedding event in our family. A lady approached me and said that she needs my help to look after her shopping bag and she will be back in a moment.
So I agreed to watch her bag. After she left, I heard a new baby crying through her shopping bag. I quickly opened the bag to confirm what I heard and it was true. A newly born baby. I was almost beaten up because people thought I was the mother and I wanted to dump the baby to run away. It was my mum who heard the extreme noise and screams that came to my rescue and vouched for me before I was let go after I explained what happened.
My Bad Habits
My bad habits will be referred to as addiction because I can do them and they kind of control my daily routine even without my knowledge.
Phone addiction is a habit that I am battling and I want to control its influence on my life and daily activities. I want to reduce my screen time because it is making me feel lazy to read or do some things I could do without struggling.
Anger issues are one of the bad habits that I want to get rid of. I get angry easily sometimes as a result of me breaking things and which I feel bad for after it's done. I regret it terribly. To curb don't this habit, I have been practicing yoga and meditation to help me relax. So I am on my journey to get rid of this habit.
Walking barefooted around the house. My mom always screams at me for walking around the house with shoes. She says, my feet will be bad if I continue and my husband will not like my feet. So I am also trying to stop that and let's say I have made a little progress.
This is my response to Ecotrain's questions of the week. Thank you 