The Habit of Being Who You Are

[darkemeralds]

Two or three times a week, I make the short pilgrimage to this place:



then turn around and go back across the street to this place:



and today it struck me that the number of times I'll be doing so in the future, though it has always been finite, is now really finite.


(Retirement countdown)

In 169 days, the nice people at Seattle's Best Coffee who know my name, my cup, and my two favorite drink orders, won't be part of my daily life anymore. On the plus side, I won't have to enter the portals of the World's Tallest Basement anymore either.

I'm reading a book called Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself which, while sadly full of pseudo-science, does contain one interesting idea: that a lot of what we are is habit, and that conscious application of mind can change habit, with the implication that we can change who we are.

It's not that I want to be someone different, particularly (mostly I'm reading the book on my sister's recommendation), but a whole bunch of my habits are shortly going to be changing considerably, with or without the conscious application of my consciousness, and I still don't have a clue what I'd like to replace them with.

Comments

[tehomet]

Crikey, it does.