Breaking the Bad Habit..

A habit is informally defined as an addictive practice or a regular tendency.

Hmm... interesting, every person on the face of this earth has a habit of doing something, whether it be biting their nails, smoking cigarettes, or stepping out on their left foot every time, everyone has a habit of their own. But generally, they can always be broken, right? Some are harder to break than others yes, but if you put your mind to it and really commit to breaking it, can't you get rid of it?

That being said, I was thinking the definition of habit seems to go hand in hand with the effects that experience when we're in love with someone... When you're in a relationship with someone that you care about a lot, and you feel yourself falling for them, it's almost like an infatuation in the beginning, almost like an obsession; an addiction. Then, as you go through the days you get accustomed to being with this person and doing things not only for yourself for them, like, ordering 2 scoops of ice cream instead of 1 because you'll probably end up sharing it. Or before we fall asleep we call them, regularly. After being a part from them we start to "miss" them and we NEED to be around them.. becoming a fiend for their affection or their love. Then there are the things that trigger these cravings, pictures, scents, love songs, whatever it may be, causing us to immediately search for them, find them and be with them... Feeding our addiction. So if being in love is like a habit shouldn't we be able to break it?

Why can't we have anti-loving gum or a patch or something? When quitting a habit, we're basically training ourself not to do it anymore, so why not be able to train our hearts to stop beating for someone else? It seems almost impossible, the heart beat is involuntary, just like how falling in love is usually something that happens without our consent which brings me to another question. Is there such a thing as falling out of love?

I'll address this questions on the next post. ;)

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