Bad Habits start innocently enough. A quirk. A peculiarity. A simple daily routine that slowly begins to snowball. First it may be bedwetting or gum chewing. Then you begin to use profanity too freely with others. Suddenly you're smoking stolen cigarettes at the HYC docks, or driving a 1995 Ford Explorer to the local racetrack to bet on a peg leg horse with a heart of gold. Before you know it, your life has become one excess after another. You are watching old Ronald Reagan films and seriously considering voting Democratic. Finally, you wake up one morning and discover that, without remembering the details, you have apparently purchased a Pearson Flyer to campaign in local races. That's when you know you have hit rock bottom, and you can only pray that your friends will have the courage to undertake a "tough love" intervention with you.
Bad Habit: A pattern of undesirable behavior acquired through frequent repetition; disposition or tendency to repeatedly engage in inappropriate or harmful acts.
Related terms: besetting sin, failing, failure, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, imperfection, moral flaw, weak point, weakness, and vice.
Examples: drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling or the excessive investment of time, money, and energy into a sailboat racing program.
