Habit, Hobby or Vice?

"Because it's fun" takes an unproductive vice and shoves it, giggling, into the okay tray.

We, as a world people, take ourselves way too seriously. Fun can be found in almost everything we do. It's a pidgeonhole buster. And it can be the anti-stress.

Good habits--like exercising every day?

I find I have to push myself to get out there and take a walk each day. I like going for walks, but I still have to make myself do it. I can always come up with an excuse for not going out there--(it's too cold, it's too windy, it's starting to rain, it's too hot, I'm too tired), but it takes the mind saying: Just put on your sneakers and get out there!

Bad habits are easy to fulfill. "Eat that ice cream! It tastes good and you'll have instant gratification!" "Have some booze if you're feeling upset. Then you won't have to feel anything."

Not all good habits are hard to maintain. I've found that eating healthy is actually easy for me now (it took a long time to get to that point, though!). These days, if I eat junk, I feel so sick afterward that it reminds me why I gave up eating junk in the first place.

Read my sig.

Manix said:

Okay, Wayne, another question--might be unrelated and will bump thread--but is religion self-destructive? Maybe that discussion would belong in the religious discussion thread.

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There can be a huge difference between religion and faith, so I'll back what Wayne said (in his sig). Some people get wrapped up in religion for all of the wrong reasons, and for all of the wrong purposes. Jim Jones, anyone? Money, power, sex, anyone? So the comment is fine in the context of this thread.

You could possibly turn some hobby into an obsession. You may never fully understand everything, but you could learn one or two things very, very well, if you wanted. And some people do and are happy with that. (I can't, I've got too many interests, but some people do.)

It takes all sorts to make the world spin.

Right now, my vices are procrastination and Nutella.

So, is being addicted to AW a habit, a hobby or a vice?

rhymegirl said:

So, is being addicted to AW a habit, a hobby or a vice?

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Obsession!

Manix said:

Okay, Wayne, another question--might be unrelated and will bump thread--but is religion self-destructive? Maybe that discussion would belong in the religious discussion thread.

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I think what Adrian is trying to say is that we're all trying to quell an emtiness which becomes obsessiveness which becomes self destructive.

Does it sound offensive to religious people?

If it does I'll change it.

BTW: I put it up there before I saw this thread, I think you and I woke up in the same frame of mind today.