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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Tang Huyen  wrote:   
   > On 11/14/2016 7:51 PM, awaken21 wrote:   
   >   
   >> Not really. It's mostly habit. More like an addiction than a choice you   
   make willingly.   
   >   
   > But if you don't take responsibility for yourself,   
   > who will do it for you? Nobody else can offload   
   > your suffering from you and suffer it in your   
   > stead. Ditto with all addictions, physical or   
   > mental. The buck stops here, that is the   
   > beginning of the road to salvation. It has to   
   > start somewhere. Such is your choice.   
   >   
   > Tang Huyen   
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   Habits are choices you have made, and to permit them to continue is   
   likewise a choice.   
      
   Oftentimes we are bullied by parents and teachers into habits like not   
   saying "f*ck" where the church lady can hear, sometimes we pick up habits   
   unintentionally like that, and sometimes we build them with a purpose.   
      
   I run on habit, it's the basis of my life, it means I don't have to   
   remember every little detail every time, I can just reach for the   
   screwdriver because I habitually put it where it belongs, and I can let my   
   heart beat and my guts digest without constantly becoming involved in the   
   details, thus providing a little leisure-time for the mind, which pisses   
   away all the unused thought in meaningless chatter associated with the   
   day's events and what dreams might be derived from them.   
      
   Which is fine, sometimes I'll smile at dinner and the wife will want to   
   know what's funny, then I can tell her a really *really* bad corny joke my   
   idle chatter machine made up in my spare time.  It can do whatever it wants   
   in my spare time, and what it does tells me things, about what's going on   
   in my world, or might be impending, but it doesn't mean I have to get down   
   on the floor and roll around with the dog to play with it, I can just pitch   
   it a stick once in a while and see what it fetches if it runs into a   
   squirrel.   
      
   That's all fine for as long as you can stay awake, but when you fall asleep   
   you've left your idiot mind to run your entire world at full tilt and the   
   dreams go many layers deep before we wake in the middle of the idle chatter   
   machine's din to try and find its shutoff switch which is on the end of a   
   long cord whipping around through the rest of the spaghetti.   
      
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