Confessing a Bad Habit

For today's blogging challenge, I have to confess a bad habit. My bad habit is being awake and lively at night and sleeping during the day. Yes, I am nocturnal and I am just like a vampire. That has been my lifestyle. Good thing that I am already aware that it is not a good habit so I am currently working on it to be change. 

I think I started to develop that habit when I was addicted to television. I watched any program until I tired myself to sleep. But usually it would be morning already before I got tired and so I started to develop a nocturnal body clock.

I became more addicted to television when we started to have cable service. I would have a movie marathon. I would watch HBO, Cinemax, Star Movies and Cinema One. I also like Disney Channel. 

I was also addicted to anime before and so I did anime' marathon until I fed up. There was a time that I thought that I do not have enough time to watch all the anime' programs that I want. 

My addiction to TV shows also led me to buy DVDs of complete season of TV series. DVDs fed my need to watch my favorite programs continuously without missing an episode. One of my favorites is Alias where Jennifer Garner acts a double agent for CIA and SD6. TV series has an addicting factor that it will make you look forward for the next episode. So usually, I would watch the DVD in twenty four hours strait and after that I will also sleep for twenty four hours to make up the lost of sleep. 

Another factor that fed my bad habit was online games. I was addicted to play MU Online. I would also play for twenty four hours. Good thing that I was able to rehab myself from online games when I started working. 

Since I made myself believe that I was a nocturnal, I chose to work in a graveyard shift. I thought that I was lucky to be working at night. First, because it fits my nocturnal lifestyle. Second, because I earn extra income from the night differential.

I has been aware that this kind of habit is bad. But it was only last year that I made a decision to stop it. I told myself that it is not worthy to earn income that would lead to poor health. Whatever we sow we reap. I may not be reaping the worst thing yet but I want to prevent it now while I can.

One thing that I have observed as a result of this habit is poor memory. I forget things. I have memory gaps. I also had dry skin. I looked like a zombie because of eye-bags and pale skin color. I was anemic. 

It has been a month since I started to change this bad habit. There were still days that I failed. After the New Year celebration, I stayed awake until morning. I just tried again and now I have been successful in having a normal body clock.

To conclude, my bad habit is caused by addiction to leisure activities and creating the wrong belief that it is just OK. Good thing that I was able to realized that it is not the lifestyle that I would like to have for the rest of my life. I control my life and I choose to improve it. It is just a matter of making good decisions and committing to that decision. I have decided to change this bad habit and I am working on it now.