Eating healthy or not, exercising, hand-washing, keeping your apartment clean or not.
Once you make something a habit it is 2nd nature.
Maybe drinking is the same way.
Either going out and getting plastered every weekend is a habit or not. How have your habits changed over the past four years? Why?
I know for myself I have noticed that if I eat healthy, I tend to want to keep eating healthy foods and cravings for junk go away. Not sure if this will make sense to anyone else but that was my “insight” of the day. Feel free if you want clarification.
Peace. Hope you have a great weekend.
- Wendy
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I don't feel like drinking is a habit. Maybe once you become an alcoholic it is, but at this point, for most college students at UGA, it is not. As long as you can party hard and work hard, more power to you. UGA is a great university, and none of us would continue to go here if we didn't care about school at all.
ReplyDeleteDrinking is more like a treat/dessert. After a long, stressful week, drinking allows me to blow off steam and forget about things for a while.
I kind of think it can be a habit. Just like you get in the habit of doing anything else, i get in the habit of going out every thursday to the bars. Once it becomes apart of your routine.. for example, it is my routine to get home from work at 6, shower, eat dinner, get ready, then head to the bars.. I think when it becomes a routine, it's a habit. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but i do agree that drinking can become a habit
ReplyDeleteI think drinking can easily become a habit. There have been times when I have expected myself to drink on a Friday or Saturday night because I knew I could and didn't have class the next day.
ReplyDeleteBut it can also remain separate from a habit with just a little effort; It usually works for my mind to kick in and remind me that this would be an expensive habit - just as the first person said - a dessert. It constitutes a large amount of calories and cost that can be completely unnecessary if you are fulfilled through your meal. As long as I can keep that perspective in my head, I always feel better about my drinking and health.
For me, drinking is as much of a habit as going to a UGA football game or going to a concert or movie is. I never say to myself, "I really need to drink tonight." It just becomes one of those things where on any given friday or saturday or yeah, sometimes even monday night that having some drinks seems like the most entertaining thing to do. I didn't drink for my first two years of college just because we always seemed to find ways to have fun otherwise. As I grew older and everyone always ended up drinking, I started to drink too. But it wasn't because of peer pressure at all. All my friends respected the fact that I didn't drink. I started drinking because I felt like I was responsible enough to handle it and if I knew that I could control it, then why did I need be a non-drinker? It took me a little while to learn how to control myself but I can say that now I go out and drink all the time but really never have more than two or three drinks at a time. And I still don't feel like it's a habit. I would go to a baseball game or gym dogs meet or concert over drinking any day. They're just not always around to keep me entertained. We sometimes have problems keeping ourselves creatively entertained and downtown is always there...
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