The bad habits I think I have did not actually seem like a big deal to me until I started seeing people talk against them and labeling them as bad habits. I think, somehow, humans generated most of these concepts based on personal opinions because, in reality, not all the habits publicly listed as "bad" are seen as awful by everyone. A typical example of this is someone who talks too much and is loud. While many people will call that a bad habit, to others, it is not. In fact, some people regard it as a sign of being smart. So, you see?
Well, the following are my bad habits:
I like to pick my nose:
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I do this very often, especially whenever my nose feels dry and scratchy. Although I used to do this very publicly a lot back then, I have reduced it, but I still find myself doing it in public once in a while. This is why I often walk around with a handkerchief to quickly cover up in case I start doing it unknowingly, as it usually happens.
I used to do this with utmost pleasure, not knowing that people actually hate it a lot, and I was cautioned by some friends while in school. I had no option but to take correction.
I have really reduced the rate at which I poke my nose with my finger, and I am still fighting hard to stop completely, but it is difficult, though.
I am not comfortable in the midst of people:
This has been said to me so many times as a bad habit, and I have come to accept it. I have tried to adapt to the other side of being social, but it has not been working for me.
I could go out in the midst of people, and before I know it, I start feeling the urge to leave them and return home for no reason. It becomes much worse if I do not have my phone with me at that moment to use as a distraction. Honestly, this is one lifestyle I have been trying to drop, but it seems very difficult. The only place I have found it easy to mingle with people is in church, and even then, I am hardly seen talking with people after church or engaging in the chit-chat that others do.
Maybe this is not really a bad habit, but the way it happens makes me feel like I am a different kind of human being and that I need to come out of my shell.
Thanks.
I wrote this in response to Hiveghana contest.