redundancy

they say that doing the same thing over and over again without success is called madness... if this is true, then has the world gone mad? We live in a world where redundancy and consistency is "worshiped" or even revered. If you are a person that can live strong for many years in a consistent manner, then you are good. But this is such a flawed philosophy... I feel like the intentions are good but the truth of the matter is... we are people, and we screw up every good idea out there just by human nature.

So, we think that having this sort of mindset will keep us living consistent lives... and that is true, but there is one thing that a lot of people seem to forget... or they just push it off to the side as if it doesn't matter because they are scared..... and that is the bad habits. The bad consistency. The things in life that you wish were inconsistent. When you pick up bad habits... you often find yourself not even wanting to continue living life with those bad habits. You find yourself getting annoyed at how you feel like you are at the mercy of those bad habits. And so, our pre-conditioned nature to be consistent kicks in and so we start keeping our bad tendencies consistent... which ultimately builds it up into a habit. And habits. are. hard. to. break.

I find myself in this situation. I've got this nagging bad habit of mine and I really want to stop it. But, as I said before... bad habits are hard to get rid of. They take time... they take revealing... they take a lot of patience. It takes a lot of help from people around you to keep you aware of those bad habits or to prevent you from performing those bad habits. But it also takes a lot of prayer. Prayer for strength to help you live on and be consistent in fighting the bad. In the end, it all falls down to ratios. What is the ratio of good to bad? And most importantly... what is the ratio of "fighting the bad" to "doing nothing". Doing nothing equates to giving up. And the last thing you wanna do... is give up. or else we become consistent in that, and that will definitely lead us to our deaths a lot quicker than we may expect.