Creatures of Habbit

In the last few days, I've been aware of a thought that has opened up a new stream of consciousness. It is a though I've had before, just as many of you I'm sure have. The thought is a simple one, just one word, Why. Three letters that have been in existance forever constantly bringing our attention to the state of flux known as life.

As I've pondered upon this simple word I've come to realized what Galileo and others have repeatedly been telling us for years thought their writing and teaching. Since I brought up Galileo let's start with one of his.

In my pondering over that simple three letter word "Why" I see within set patterns that occur over and over, habbits developed over the years, most starting when I was very young. So what purpose do these habbits have? If we are to grow then shouldn't have these childhood habbits we developed been outgrown? In my life, to a certain extent they have, but yet, the same habbits still exist in a similar but altered state of consciousness.

In the above, my mind was set on habbits typically referred to as protective habbits we've developed. There are other types as well, for instance a habbit of appreciation for beauty and nature in general, but are these habbits? I never thought so until today, then it hit me, habbits are neither good or bad, they are just that, a habbit, a repeatative action that we do. They are a part of us, the wiring of our being, they serve a purpose that I had not comprehended.

If I had not realized this, then this blog entry, would have gone unchanged habitually as my typical writing style. My next part of it would have been a quote from Albert Einstein.

It still fits here, but in a different sense of meaning. What I would have started here would have been on a note of "Why things do not seem to change", I regress. Instead, I want to change a word and rephrase the quote to

Can this happen, are we insane for thinging it? Albert, I'm sure, thought hard about this very same wording I've used. He was a genius but he too, was a creature of his habbits. In comparison of both versions of the quote, there are truths to each version. While both deal with the result of a action, it is insane to think differently. Have I lost you? Have I lost my mind?

Maybe I have lost my mind, probably have, know it's changing. I beginning to look at things very differently and hope you'll follow me for just a bit longer. Now that we have two versions of Albert's quote, lets take my one more change to each version and change the word insanity to habbit.

Now I've really lost my mind, how can you get different results by habitual action? We all know that habitually if you repeat the same action you usually get the same results, but not always. This blog started out that way, I started a habitual action and yes I'll have the same results, this article. In the middle to beginning of this article though, an awareness, a different thought occurs causing a change in it's content. Did I break the habbit, is this now non-habitual. Not really, it's an awareness shift, that's all.

If the process radically changed then it would be non-habitual, it didn't, although there was a change in its process. Ok, now i'm really not making sense am I. By definition, a habbit, is repeating the same process over and over as I am dioing here. I am still writting, I am still thinking, and I am still doing the same thing over and over. The process (writing) is still the same however it is not (awareness factor) and does that change this to non-habitual? In the past I would have said yes, now I wonder.

The only difference here, was a thought, an awareness. It was this thought that prompted me to write and I have followed though the thought process habitually. The common knowledge here is how something occurs, we are taught it over and over, no matter what the subject it. That is why I can consider this process a habbit, one that habitually is occuring.

As I brought up earlier, habbits are just habbits. We are creatures of habbit and will habitually live our lives that way, in other words, we live what we know. A friend of mine has the habbit of saying "When you so involved with something it's like you can't see the forest through the trees". I'm guilty, always have been. It's that habitual thing, doing the same thing over and over. Every now and then something different happens, a glimmer of light hits us, causing us to stop for a moment. I look up at it and can see the tree-tops and witness something different. I still can't see the forest in it's fullness, just the trees and the glimmer of light, then as I continue the glimmer is gone.

In that instance, as with everthing in life, is a crossroad. While I may have lost sight of the glimmer, it has created an awareness, that will always exist. Depending upon the strenght of it's influence and my state of mind determines whether its effect stays conscious or goes subconscious. So what do I do? What am I suppose to think? Which path do I take? My answer is simple, I really don't know! I believe I would have taken the crossroad where the glimmer of light was , but maybe not, and if not maybe I wasn't suppose to take that path.

Whether or not I follow the same path I was on or take the crossroad, i'm finding, isn't as important as I once thought. What hit me today was more the ability to look up at the glimmer of light and to keep its illusion fresh in the conscious. In doing so, when the timing is right, whenever that may be, the presence of awareness has the opportunity to shift the outcome at hand.