Ok, so after talking to a fellow classmate, I realized that I should probably make this blog a bit more interesting by talking about things other than class-related materials.
Since this is the beginning of the year, I've been working on starting over and forming new habits and ridding my life of some bad habits. As I've analyzed my life and the things I should add and subtract, I've realized how many addictive things I have going on in my life. For example, I press snooze for at least 30 minutes after I wake up in the morning. I have to have coffee in the morning and a Dr. Pepper by noon. At ten o'clock almost every night on, no matter how productive I should be, I sit around and watch two to three hours of reruns...
However, through this introspection, I discovered that I am addicted to so many people. I have to kiss my husband before either he or I leave in the morning, or I have a bad day. There are certain people that I rush to work or school so that I can see them just because they give me the emotional fix I need. I am not saying that I am totally dependent on these people; however, I never before thought that people could be as addicting as my Dr. Pepper.
My bad habits are hard to break, and I'm not expecting these habits to go away in an instant...but I guess my rhetoric question out the cosmic internet world is: how do I ween myself away from certain people to which I shouldn't be addicted?
3 comments:
I too am an avid snoozer. I wake up via a cell phone alarm plus an alarm clock. All the noise begins 45 minutes before I absollutely must get up. As to your comment about people addictions I agree with you. There are some people that I just want to be around becasue they lift my spirits and encourage me. I think in the past I have been guilty of using people to make me feel better which is wrong. Your post has me thinking about the people that I feel I must be around and why deep down I feel the way I do about them. No answers yet but I'm working on it!
I can totally relate! On the smaller scale, I am a raging Dr. Pepper addict. I told myself I would stop drinking so much but it really hasn't happened. I drink at least 2 per day. However, I hate diet drinks but I discovered I like sugar free red bull-it still has the caffeine but not the sugar, so it has to be a little better for me. An idea for your morning thing is I would suggest setting your alarm for a time that if you don't get up at that time you'll be late. For example, I have to be at work at 8 and it takes me 30 minutes and I get up at 7:05, b/c it takes me about 30 min. to get ready so I can't really snooze. On the people thing, I do not have a lot of friends, and my best friend is my husband. I have no problem going places by myself, in fact, I enjoy being by myself, but lately I've found myself ready to go to work, and I'm relizing it's not necessarily b/c I enjoy it, even though I do, but it's the people, a few in particular, who give me attention and there's an interaction between us I enjoy and crave! My husband works 3-11:30 so we never see each other except for the weekends, so I don't know if the people at work are filling that void emotionally or what!?! But I can really relate to you. I think some of it has to do with our childhoods and whatever emotional/psychological issues are hidden deep down. I heard something on the radio today, about how humans were made to be social creatures. That when we work together to get things done we feel better. They did not say this as a bad thing, but as a positive thing, and human nature. It's probably not healthy for us to rely on others to make us feel good, but if we rely on people for interaction and good convo. and whatever else-it's probably ok. Who knows? I'm rambling now!
i set my alarm 30 minutes before to get up so I CAN hit snooze! but I know what you mean about losing habits. Last summer I had a goal to "kick" mayonaise. i figure its just bad calories that I can rid myself of. I am not a mustard person most of time, so this was very difficult, especially when it came to cheese burgers. Good luck on kicking your habits.
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