What are some bad habits of yours that you're trying to fix? - Page 3

I've many bad habits but I'm trying to fix none of them.

Originally posted by: MujheMaarjaneDo

Smoking: although it unlike most of my friends, I started smoking very late. I started smoking since 2018 regularly, when I was 25, while most of my friends started when they were early teens.

But since I started, I have started smoking too much. First it was as always one per day, than two, than three. And now 10-12 a day. I want to quit, but can't.

Not eating properly: As anyone here in IF knows me, I am not a foodie one. And not just that, my eating habit is erratic, at home atleast my mom or family members forced me to eat. But when I am working, I hardly eat something good. There was a time when I used to work whole days and night, eating just chips and tea/coffee. No not because I had money issues, but because I didn't feel like eating.

Commitment phobic: The biggest reason why I have been single my whole life, apart from those pesky relationship which didn't even lasted a month. Because firstly I don't like commitments or giving time to people. Like texting someone because they want me to, doesn't happen with me. Or calling someone daily, talking for hours, telling them where I am, with whom and all those things. I just can't. I try to convince myself, it is okay to have this damn care behaviour, but I think later in my life, I will regret it.

My mom used to feed me forcefully and used to follow till the gate to feed me the last morsel😆 the patience she had🤗

It's very easy to manipulate me

I'm hyper emotional, koi bhi ghatiya se ghatiya TV show lelo where any person is crying I get emotional seeing him/her.

I get scared by little things and that's annoying, I mean by the sound of closing of door by winds, lightening and even when the fan is on full speed, the sound of crackers makes it even worse

Originally posted by: blue-ice.1

I have 2 very bad habits....First I am dead scared of going to the doctors unless its absolutely necessary.....My husband takes our kids for their well check ups and everything....Its like I step foot in a doctor's office and my BP shoots up...My BP is going up even while writing this...

Second is that I stress over things that have not even happened yet....My husband calls me Chintamani....once something I stress about turns out OK...he is like ..OK Chintamani...what is the next one on your agenda..😆

Are you talking about me??? Trust me I could not have phrased it better.

I absolutely absolutely HATE going to doctor's. I pray for everyone's good health before anything else. I believe money comes and go, but health NEEDS to be with you always. I do not know, how will I cope when I have children. I guess my husband will have to take them to doctor's.🤣

And yes, my mind automatically finds something or the other thing to worry about. 🤣🤣

Originally posted by: AwaamKiJaan

I've many bad habits but I'm trying to fix none of them.

What are they?

• I’m a full-time procrastinator. Whether for exams or assignments, I would always start the night before and chuck an all-nighter. In between, I’ll start doing mathematical calculations to figure out how much I’ll need to pass. Then I’ll watch youtube tutorials on how crocodiles communicate. This is my motto for anything with a deadline. Do everything last minute because I will be older and therefore wiser 😆.

• I’m extremely emotional. Like ridiculously. I will cry over a 30 second advertisement. In fact, a few days ago I started crying just thinking about funerals of people that aren’t even dead yet (I’ve even mourned over my own death) 😂.

• I’m empathetic to the point that I’ll ruin my own mental health stressing over other people’s problems. I’m also a cat lover (have 3 of my own) and therefore seeing any stray cat on the road will actually ruin my whole day. I’ll start stressing whether they’ve eaten or have somewhere to sleep and will think about them all day. Because of this, I now carry disposable plates and cans of cat food in my car. So I’ll stop driving when I spot a stray cat and will jump out to feed them. Obviously this sounds like a ‘good habit’ but I’m more of an extreme kind of person. If I don’t have enough food, I’ll kill myself stressing that I didn’t give enough.

• I have OCD. I’ve driven back home and risked running late just because I thought I had left the hair straightener on. I have an irrational fear that I’ll burn the house down so I remove majority of electronic appliances from the socket and have to stare at it, convincing myself that it isn’t connected. This same checking/re-checking OCD extends to the stove being left on and seeing if the front door is actually locked. I believe this behaviour developed after my father passed away. Being the eldest child, I felt the pressure and responsibility to ensure everyone at home is safe. So if I don’t check all of the above, I’ll be convinced that everyone will die. I also wake up in the middle of the night to check if all 3 of my cats are still breathing. This is by far the most crippling habit of mine. I’m never stress-free.

Smiling in serious situations: This is my biggest problem, I am not a happy go person but I am always finding always smiling unconsciously especially in serious situations. Even I tried to control myself, I am never fully successful. Thank God this habit has reduced a bit

Originally posted by: Kim_roseanne

Smiling in serious situations: This is my biggest problem, I am not a happy go person but I am always finding always smiling unconsciously especially in serious situations. Even I tried to control myself, I am never fully successful. Thank God this habit has reduced a bit

My brother has this issue. It makes matters much worse seeing that he’s a paramedic student. No person in a life threatening situation wants to see the emergency team smiling at your trauma. Unfortunately he can’t help it and always incriminates himself. 😆

Originally posted by: Lord_Voldemort

These are a few of my bad habits that I am trying to fix. Please help if you have solutions to this, and share your bad habits too

• I am a very miserly person. Like, I over calculate even if I have to spend 10 rupees.

rate of inflation is more than the increment in salary. we have to be attentive about our pocket. plus, taxes slabs in India is frustrating. I even look at the price vs grams. But once in a while I don't have a problem in eating expensive salad at an expensive restaurant.

• I try to avoid giving tips at restaurants.

It is not a bad habit. Giving tips put other people in discomforting situation like it is some sort of mandatory thing. We are paying GST. Waiters are getting salary for their job then why extra tip for the same service. Some restaurants add separate VAT and service charges even now (other than GST). It happened with me in a restaurant in Goa. They had added 250 bucks for VAT and service charges. I asked the waiter what are these charges if GST is already there and he said it is optional (tip in the bill itself). We add it but you can avoid it. And I was like WTH. What if i wouldn't have asked?

• I bargain even from a street vendor. All this and more. It is probably because when I was in school our family had a severe financial crunch for a few years and we had to watch every rupee we were spending. And from then on, I do not spend on anything unless I absolutely have to. This phase continued even after we recovered from our financial state and we were not poor anymore. Now I earn in the six figures but I still do not spend liberally, which my friends seem to do so easily, even if they earn less than I do.

Same here. But do not stop yourself from enjoying a few things once in a while. Eat and dress well. because that's why you are earning. save enough for medical emergencies. because no one helps.

• I cannot control my urge to eat sweets and junk food. I mean everyone loves these foods but is wise enough to not overeat right? But I don't know how to stop. I keep eating like there is no tomorrow. Once I finished a whole box of sweets in an hour. I don't know why I am so greedy when it comes to food. And the result? The result is I put on weight and have to go on a crash diet and exercise for months to lose the fat. But I go back to eating after losing weight, and then I do the dieting/exercising again. This keeps happening in phases and I'm so fed up.

I can have sweets for entire day like a full meal. And I also try my best to avoid them but they are tempting. I started with not having milk tea- shifted to green tea 7 years back. I replaced sugar with jaggery (actual gud). Instead of sweets after meals, I started taking green tea (flavoured/flower) after lunch and dinner. Salad helped me to control my cravings for sweets. People thing I eat it for dieting🤔

These are the top 3 bad habits that I want to get rid of. What are yours?

Conscious of my physical appearance.

Not able to forgive people (personal life or professional).

Originally posted by: Kim_roseanne

Smiling in serious situations: This is my biggest problem, I am not a happy go person but I am always finding always smiling unconsciously especially in serious situations. Even I tried to control myself, I am never fully successful. Thank God this habit has reduced a bit

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