Bad Habits
Jim peered at the number on the scale. Jim thought he wasn’t the kind of person who defined his life by a number on the scale, at least not after he had defeated the number on the scale. But here he was. One would think that after spending years of forming a habit, one would stick to it always, but habits were so easy to break, one look away, one bad episode and all the days you struggled to stick to your habit comes crashing down. A taste of the bad and it is all over. Okay, maybe not all over, because when you start to fray on the edges and start crossing boundaries, you start realizing it, you start recognizing that you are breaking yourself, so you try to stop, but then sometimes you are unable to. It wasn’t fair, he had maintained his good habits for years, and within a week, he was starting to abandon all the things he thought he would never abandon because it him feel good. It made him feel good when he stuck to what made him better, but now he could feel it come crash...