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Siderea ([personal profile] siderea) wrote in [personal profile] wispfox 2023-10-17 07:07 am (UTC)

Do your habits require any energy to initiate?

Some do, some don't.

When I wake up, I will go to the bathroom, then I will go make coffee. I will do this on pretty much autopilot. I started making my bed as part of that routine a few years ago, and now I find myself doing it automatically. If something thwarts my enacting this habit, my brain will glitch, and I will preservate on it ("HOW CAN I MAKE COFFEE IF I DON'T HAVE ANY COFFEE") and it will require a serious act of will to pull myself up out of the rut I am stuck in.

Contrariwise, I have brushed my hair nearly every day of the past half century, and it remains an effort to get up and go do that every. single. time.

I got nothin'.

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