As a human being, we should nurture good habits. It makes our life path smooth and systematic. Bad habit creates negative impact, which makes life path unsystematic.
Let us discuss some positive aspects of good habit.
In Indian culture, from Vedic time, it has been taught to perform good habit so that the nature of individuals become positive. However, now-a-days many people do not perform good habits. According to them, it is not necessary to nurture good habit. Yes, we cannot force a person to adopt good things but we can make him/her understand about the positive aspects of good habits. It is upto them whether they will perform it or not. The young generation feels that habit is habit. There is no difference between good or bad habits. In a turn, their behavior, work styles all becomes different. Their attitude becomes irrational. I am narrating some true incidents.
Generally, I reach in the college in time. I have inherited this time punctuality from my parents. As a teacher, I always practice the things which I preach to my students because my conscience says that first I should perform the things so that I can justify the things to others. Therefore, I always try to maintain the punctuality in all my work schedules. One day one of my engineering student, in the morning knocked my door in the college. I opened and asked what the requirement with me was. Then he told that, Sir, ours class rooms were not opened. Also not the attendant arrived who was supposed to open the classrooms. I told him that your classes began at 8 a.m. and now it is 7.30. So wait for some time. In a curiosity, he told, “Sir nobody has come yet, but you have come earlier”. I told him that I am punctual and sincere always. Sometimes I become late due to some unavoidable problem but that is very rare. I told him, “see my dear, from the age of four I wake up at morning 4 a.m., pluck flowers for gods, Take birth, and worship god and then I do other works. Then he asked me whether I sleep upto 9a.m. in the morning if it would be a Sunday or any holiday. Then I told him that I never wake up late in the morning. He told that he is a late riser and in Sunday or holiday he sleeps upto 10a.m. in the morning. Then I told him, “Babu! I have made my rising habit in such a way that, my body cycle would never permit me to arise me late. It is a habit, which I have nurtured from my childhood. He was surprised with my answer.
I have narrated this incidence because I have observed a lot people do not follow any routine. They are not systematic, they are not punctual. They do not try to nurture good habit also. Their point of argument is that many people get good jobs, good salary without having routine life. For them, earning good money is the priority; nurturing good habit is not necessary.
However, money is not everything, Money may give you comfort, money may give you luxury but nurturing good habits make you self-satisfied, make you relieved, make you happy in consciousness. Your heart becomes pure and your conscience appreciate you. Without the approval of conscience, a human is not justified as true human being. The good habit may not give wealth or luxury but the heavenly pleasure of happiness, which can be available through the nourishment good habits only. So one should always try to adopt good habits as for as possible by him/her.
