are you bounded to your habits or to the laws around you?
By skenthal
@skenthal (1020)
Turkey
August 26, 2008 10:56am CST
Did you know that if you consistently do something for 21 days straight on the 22nd day you do it automatically? I read that somewhere once – that after the 3week things just become a habit. Habits that are good or bad. I have a habit of biting my nails and well, the smoking of course, both of which I shouldn’t do but I really cannot control it. I catch myself lighting a cigarette without even thinking about it. Laws on the other had are simply guidelines I feel. Like when it says 50miles per hour, how many of us really go 50 and not 60? So, are you bounded to your habits or to the laws around you?
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3 responses
@falassion (419)
• Brazil
26 Aug 08
Well, I think I'm a mix of both.
As you, I also have habits, like biting my nails. But, most of them are caused because of the routine, cause it's it that makes me take a bath everyday in the morning (and not in the afternoon, for example) and much other things.
In other side, the same routine that makes you have some habits also kind of apply some rules on you (like your job rules, for example)..
Then, I can say then that I'm bounded to routine, and not to habits or laws (or to both of them, then). ^^
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
26 Aug 08
Some say the forming of habits happens after 21 days; some say 28 or 30. Whichever it is, doing something consistently over a long period of time does make it become a habit. And that can be good or bad.
Personally, I like being more spontaneous. I like varying my days and my life to make things more interesting. But even the act of doing something different can become a habit. 
For instance, when my husband calls from work every day after lunch (I don't wake up before he leaves for work, so we like to talk mid-day), I always answer the phone differently. I know it's him, because we have caller ID. Sometimes I'll answer in French, sometimes in Spanish (I only know a few words in each). Sometimes I'll answer with a question. I never, ever just say hello. But in wanting to be more spontaneous and different, my hubby still knows that I'll say or do something different when he calls. So I've become predictable.
For instance, when my husband calls from work every day after lunch (I don't wake up before he leaves for work, so we like to talk mid-day), I always answer the phone differently. I know it's him, because we have caller ID. Sometimes I'll answer in French, sometimes in Spanish (I only know a few words in each). Sometimes I'll answer with a question. I never, ever just say hello. But in wanting to be more spontaneous and different, my hubby still knows that I'll say or do something different when he calls. So I've become predictable.