It’s Day 3 of the “30-Day Blog Challenge”, and today I’m charged with sharing a bad habit that I wish I didn’t have. Truth be told, I’m not really a fun of judging my habits as “good” or “bad” – but I do have a few tendencies that aren’t particularly fulfilling.
Here are three that immediately come to mind:
- Grindr. Checking Grindr every now and then is one thing, but I’ve found it incredibly addicting and entirely mindless. Along with Facebook and my email, it’s the first thing I check in the morning and the last thing I browse before bed. It’s gotta be the least productive thing that I choose to do with my time… even less productive than longing for my foreskin.
- Excuses. I find myself habitually excusing great ideas and adventures on the basis that they’re impossible or impractical. But as Dr. Wayne Dyer would remind us, the only thing that ensures an idea’s impossibility is never trying it. Excuses are a self-fulfilling prophecy that I could certainly live without.
- Public nudity. One of the habits that I wish to drop is my discomfort with public nudity. As I’m almost always in some state of undress in my house (like right now), this might come as a bit of a surprise to you. But it’s one thing to be naked in front of yourself, and another thing to be naked in front of people you don’t know. I’m not really sure where my discomfort steams from – perhaps my own internal sexualization of the naked body, an undiscovered insecurity or perhaps just a fear of the unknown.
While I wouldn’t consider these habits to be “bad”, they certainly present opportunities for deeper transformation and personal evolution.
But now it’s your turn. What’s one habit that you wish you didn’t have? Write it in the comments below.
January 4, 2011 at 10:57 am
yeah-having a crush on a secret crush on a guy that is obsessed with one just one woman.its so too much taking up my time-but i do it anyway.
January 4, 2011 at 10:59 am
pretty much says it for me also.
January 4, 2011 at 1:04 pm
It’s easy to work on #3. You should go to a nude beach and work yourself up to wandering around without even a towel. But you get up the courage to do that, start with photos for the blog….
January 4, 2011 at 5:28 pm
I care too much about others.
January 4, 2011 at 7:03 pm
your welcome
January 5, 2011 at 12:14 am
A bad habit…like you Davey I dislike defining things as bad. I would say caring to much would be one. Some people find it smothering if you are to aware of their well being. Guess its my nurturing side.
T
January 5, 2011 at 6:41 am
GRINDR IS SO ADDICTIVE. YOU CANT HELP it Davey
January 6, 2011 at 8:30 am
I eat when I’m nervous, whenever I get nervous it occupies my hands and eyes. I hate making eye contact with people, I feel like I’m staring at someone.
January 6, 2011 at 9:57 am
I always feel like a hypocrite when someone I am not attracted to checks me out, but I am flattered when someone I like does it.
But I feel your pain about not being comfortable being seen naked. I love being naked outdoors, but I need to do it someplace where I am alone, or with someone I can trust (like someone I am dating at the time). It drives me nuts knowing that a stranger might be checking me out (refer back to above comment). I need to just “own” it one of these days and just get over it.
January 7, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Davey, come to the Fig Leaf 5k run in Dawsonville, Georgia on April 30th! It’s a nude run that some friends of mine and I are going to participate in for the first time! You can stay at our house (near Athens), and we’ll drive up for the day. It’ll be lots of fun!
January 9, 2011 at 11:36 am
drinking, smoking, biting my nails, singing in my celine dion voice, singing in my liza minnelli voice, falling in love with every guy who shows my kindness… :/
August 28, 2011 at 4:55 am
That habit of babbling on and on