Bad Habits - Stop It (Part 1)

by Ezinne Aja OY/13C/1453

This is not going to be a piece describing different bad habits and saying “bad habits are bad for you” or that “you should stop them”, I’m not your mother. Bad habits from the word ‘BAD’ tell us that they ‘not good’, so repeating that they should be stopped is rather redundant, and again, I’m not your mother. So instead of starting with the “bad habits are bad” argument, we’re going to skip that and talk about how bad habits affect other people – people in your immediate environment especially. The greatest misdeed you can do is to put someone else’s life in danger because you don’t want to stop a bad habit. So we’re going to look at different bad habits in order of how life threatening they are to the person next to you i.e. from ‘least likely to kill the person next to you’ to ‘manslaughter’.

Picking your nose – Although not an immediate cause of death, picking your nose in public with reckless abandon would most certainly have made that girl run away from you or probably wonder ‘what did he hide in there’. Picking your nose can sometimes be an involuntary action, but you need to be aware of it and caution your fingers before you actually dig something out, throw it at the windshield of a car and cause an accident. You might ask ‘what is so wrong with picking your nose?’ in short ‘it’s disgusting’, and in the long run ‘the germs that you dig out from your nose can be transferred through a hand shake can cause harm on anybody anywhere, and also it’s disgusting’. You might also ask me “What do I then do when the insides of my nostrils itch?” answer: “blow into a tissue”, “scratch (lightly of course) the top of your nose”, “pour spirit in your nostril (just kidding! Maybe)”, just don’t pick your nose in public!

STOP PICKING YOUR NOSE, ARE YOU A MONKEY? IT’S DISGUSTING.

Binge drinking – Two words; Binge: To consume excessively; Drinking: To consume liquid; Binge drinking: To consume liquid excessively. Definitely you know I’m not talking about drinking water or juice, which is weird because nobody binges on those things. But with alcohol, people can drink on behalf of their Local Government Area; nothing should be done in excess especially drinking. Many families are broken up because the father over drinks and then comes back and acts stupid in his drunken haze. A lot people also drive while drunk, thereby causing an accident putting someone who was not drunk in critical condition. As I said at the beginning, the greatest misdeed you can do is to put someone’s life in danger because of your habit.

YOU’RE NOT STUPID, STOP BINGE DRINKING.

Smoking – Second hand smoke is one of the leading causes of cancer in America. Note that I did not say smoking is the one of the leading causes of cancer in America, I said second hand smoke. That is, the smoke that comes from someone that is smoking can kill someone that is not smoking. Cancer is an incurable condition that many people have tried to avoid, some people go as far as not using Bluetooth earpieces or owning microwaves, but then sadly for those people there’s that guy that is in the habit of smoking without regard for the person next to him. Just because someone is trying to kill him/herself doesn’t mean that he/she has to drag everybody with her. SOLUTION:  Find one corner in one bush and kill yourself there, leave the rest of the world out of it.

YOU’RE NOT A MURDERER, STOP SMOKING.

With these few points, I have attempted to show that bad habits not only affect you they affect the person next to you. So if you’ve been asked to stop and you reply with ‘is it your body’, yes it is my body you’re infecting. Peace Out. 

 P.S. Watch out for part II with topics on BUTT SCRATCHING, SPITTING, and some other rather disgusting thing that, well, endangers humanity.