Bad Habits

A wealthy man requested and old scholar to wean his song away from his bad habits. The scholar took the youth  for a stroll through a garden. Stopping suddenly he asked the boy to pull out a tiny plant growing there.

The youth held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out. The old man then asked him to pull out a sightly bigger plant. The youth pulled hard and the plant came out, roots and all. "Now put out that one" said the old man pointing to a bush. The boy had to use all his strength to put it out. 

"Now put that one" said the old man, indicating a guava tree. The boy grasped
the trunk and tried to put it out. But it would no budge. "It's impossible," said the boy, panting with the effort.

"So it is with bad habits" said the sage. "When they are young it is easy to pull them out but when they take hold they cannot be uprooted"

The session with the old man changed the boy's life.

Don't wait for Bad Habits to grow in you, drop them while you have control over it, else they will get control over you.

by Jay (United Kingdom)