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A man is made up of his habits. Every man possesses one or the other habit.

Habit
is not some property or an entity of a person. It is the way of life that leads a
person. For example some people get up very early in the morning while some
people go to bed mid of the night. Some people cannot live without smoking and
some people do not smoke at all. Thus habit is merely a practice of man.

Each person is right from their point of view. No one in this world agrees that they
are wrong. Only a few do it. Every person has a justification for their action. What
is right to us would be wrong to others. In general there is a perception that
anything accepted to be correct by a majority of people is obviously correct. For
example helping others is a correct deed whereas cheating others is a wrong deed.

Man as a child would have sucked his thumb always. It would have been enjoyed
by his parents and relatives till his third year, criticized at his fifth year and
definitely punished at his seventh year. What if he carries that habit till his twenty
fifth year? The very thought of it makes us laugh. Thus habits should be changed
when they have to be. A person should control his habit and not let the habit
control him.

Differentiating Habits and Believes:

Habit is different from belief. Belief is what you have faith in and habit is what you
practice to support your belief. A person having faith in God would spend a lot of
time in reading spiritual books, attending prayers, listening to discourses about
gospels of God. On the other hand a person who has no faith in God will see to it
that he does not spend even a second in spiritual activity. He will consider the
entire thing as a mere waste of time. So developing healthy believes will
automatically help you in developing healthy habits.

Good Habit vs. Bad Habit

Right from our kinder garden we would have had a class at our schools known as
moral science. The subject is exclusively meant for teaching human values and
morals of life. We would have been taught that habits such as lying, stealing,
fighting are bad whereas helping, loving, praying, forgiving are good. Who made
this discrimination? Who has devised this classification? It is none other than us.

It is the humans that by mere experiences of their lives who have brought this
classification.
Habits were not framed overnight, but have been lived across traditions and
generations by our fathers and forefathers. Habits as a practice have made a
positive difference in their lives. For example there lived a ruler in India named
Harichandra who fought for truth and never lied even a single time. He came
across several obstacles but was very truthful. He overcame all the struggles by
this habit of being truthful and is being praised and remembered even today
Mahatma Gandhi, the great freedom fighter and father of Indian nation took King
Harichandra as his role model. He led a life as preached by him and attained great
heights in life. Thus good habits enable a man to make a history.

We have one life and it is up to us to make the life worth living. It is therefore
indispensable for every individual to eliminate bad habits and practice good habits.

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