The Futility Of Improving Habits

A habit

Is not born

Of itself.

 

It is a leaf

On a tree.

 

A particular tree

Produces a particular habit.

 

The world and its so-called experts

Teach the masses

To “change their habits.’

And to “improve their habits.”

 

The Serious man

May ask himself,

If he “practiced”

Creating the habits he has now.

 

He may ask himself,

If he strategically and intentionally

Developed the habits

He has now.

 

If he did not strategically and intentionally

Create the habit,

He may ask himself

If it makes sense to strategically and intentionally

“Change” or “improve” them.

 

Doing so

Will force him to have to “manage” them

Forever.

 

Which is also what the experts teach:

To manage and manage and manage.

 

This is one of the reasons why

Man is never at rest.

He is never at peace.

 

Because he is always in a frenzy.

He is always changing this and that.

He is always trying to prevent the flood

With one hand,

While sweeping out the water

With the other.

 

And for all of his lifelong efforts

Of “improving” and “changing” his habits,

He still lives in suffering,

Turmoil,

Confusion,

And misery.

 

To change one’s habits

Is yet another way

For the experts

To make a mule

Out of man.

 

 

Namaste.