Nobody is perfect and as humans we are bound to make mistakes but the most important thing is accepting them and then yielding to correction...
As humans, we all have both good and bad habits some of which became part of us as a result of mimicking others or just a normal habit....
I as a person, i am an example of such person with good and bad habits, i am a human and that means i have some flaws and my flaws didn't come from mimicking others but it was an inbuilt ...
Growing up i had lots of friends that do come by my house to play and after then we eat and then they all go back to their houses, i had this bad habit then but it wasn't known to them but to those around me...
Enough of the chit chat, i am going to list out some of my bad habits and how i tried to cultivate a good one but found it difficult...
BAD HABITS....
As a kid i had some bad habits and it was really something that was difficult for me to STOP, thinking abou all this just made me smile i think you all will smile after listening to my story...
Here are some of my bad habits and they include:
SUCKING MY THUMB👍👍
In nigeria, we have a very high ratio of children sucking the thumb, i was among those children who sucks the thumb and all this was inbuilt because as a child sucking our thumbs serves as our only means of CONSOLATION either when flogged or disciplined and then we feel sleepy, we take out our thumb and suck until we sleep off...
Even after sleeping my thumbs were always in my mouth because it consoles me and when removed, i cry until it is back in....
All this continued for years until i grew up and slowly all of it ended and it was like i never had that bad habit....
OPENED MOUTH WHEN CARRIED AWAY....
Thinking about this bad habit of mine makes me feel ashamed of myself but all this was a childhood bad habit which was corrected by force through my mother's hand....
I had this habit of listening to other people's conversation and when i get carried away, my mouth is always wide open enough for a fly to fly in and escape without noticing...
After my mother found out this bad habit of mine, she took upon herself to set things and then it all started, st first it felt like pure wickedness but now i know it was for my own good..
Anytime my mum sees me carried away or listening to attentively to other people's conversation, she is always sure my mouth is wide open and before i know it, it is a painful hit on my lips or she squeezes my ears until i am back to reality....
That continued for weeks and it eventually stopped because by then the incident is now stucked to my consciousness and whenever i realize i am going too far, then it comes in rushing to me and i compose myself so that i won't receive another hit on my lips...
SLEEPING ANYHOW AND ANYWHERE...
This is one of the worst bad habit of mine, I remember how I do sleep everywhere like a baby goat looking for shelter...
After playing all day and feeling very tired and sleepy, my family members are always outside late at night either cooking or enjoying the breeze and as a child I fall asleep most times while sleeping on a GENERATOR CAGE...
I would fold myself and make Sure I fit on that particular space at that moment because of sleep and when I wake up the next day, I will start making inquiries on who carried Mr inside that night...
The second way is another way which I find comfortable and it was never a problem to me until I started growing up.
I sleep On anything small and portable like a short stool and all this whole my slippers is arranged and I am going to kneel on it and out my head on that chair until I fall asleep...
It became an habit for me that I now sleep anywhere anyhow and when my mum found out, she got rid of that bad habit of mine and I became a new being and it all disappeared...
HOW DID I CULTIVATE A GOOD HABIT..
I got rid of all those bad habits because I had someone who stood as a correction pen in my life, to me it was my mother and to you it might be your brother or any Body...
Thanks to the hitting, abuse and adulthood, I realized all what I was doing was wrong and gradually after taunts from my friends it began to stop and slowly I found myself giving up on them.and before I knew it, I was a new born..
I learnt all my good habits from my mum as she is always observant and cautious of me because of all those bad habits and anytime she sees me doing all this, she corrects me with cane and punishment and that was how I slowly started cultivating good habit ...
In summary, all this happened to me years ago, I stopped all this by myself when I realized I was the only one with such habit amongst my friends, so that made me to start acting like a grown up and then I learnt how to stop myself and there we go, I am now just myself and no additions of bad habits of the past...
In conclusion, having a bad habits is nothing to be ashamed off, it is normal to have one or two bad habits and that is what makes you a human, but learning how to curb it is the best way to survive and learning new things from your past habits and using them to make a good habits...
Thank you for reading ❤️❤️❤️
We all have bad habits, it is normal, when we grow we lose them little by little. Experiences help us improve and change.
Thank you for stopping by my friend ❤️
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I was naughty when I was young, surely I have a lot of bad habits, yet I think they overcome and naturally go away in my puberty, lol. But listening to their conversation I think you were really born smart and curious, haha. I found myself in your position, my mother does the same discipline to me lol.
lols, this is quite interesting would like to know more of this..than you for stopping by