Breaking the habit
BREAKING THE HABIT Mario D’Couto Aristotle once said that we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit. In one of my previous articles called, “A Christian Understanding of Virtue Ethics” https://insightsfromacommonman.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-christian-understanding-of-virtue.html , I mentioned that we become good by doing good. It can be compared to mastering any skill like playing the guitar, playing soccer, learning to dance, drawing and so on. Yet, most of us in life, struggle with the fact of living out the life that we truly want. Year after year, so many people make new year resolutions or sometimes they may say things like, “I’m going to master this skill or I’m going to hit the gym and lose weight” and so on. And yet, after the initial gusto, the drive to change slowly begins to fade away and dies out eventually. And what’s the common excuse? No time! Of course, there are many ...