My bad habits aren’t as bad as they used to be and my good habits are better.
I’ve been noticing how my lifestyle has evolved over time. This makes me think, if I could go back in time, back 40 years and meet myself as a 22 year old…
Oh hey, let’s go back 50 years and meet myself as a 12 year old. I wouldn’t smoke my first cigarette. Smoking cigarettes did nothing for my social life, or my coolness quality, (I was never very cool. I was cool adjacent at best.) Smoking made my teeth yellow and my breath bad. It burned holes in the car seat of my Pontiac LeManns.
And then a few years later, I wouldn’t take that first drink. If I could go back 40 years and meet myself as a 22 year old… The money I spent on beer when I didn’t have money to spend. The university years. And then (go back 30 or 20 years) tipping into alcoholism under the pressures of the family, the job, the everything all at once. Yeah, I wouldn’t start that habit either.
And of course since we are talking about habits, there are habits I would do instead. Writing everyday would be one. Just as smoking and drinking have brought more harm than good over the years, writing has brought more good than harm. If I could go back 30 years to when I started writing I would remember how hard it was to write but I would force myself to write more and more often. Writing made me a better communicator. Writing, brought a six-figure income at the end. I should have started sooner and written more and more often.
It is never too late to change.
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