Habit Deadens

Habit 1.8.2003

Samuel Beckett wrote, "Habit is the great deadener." A man once decided to live by that statement.

"I think I will remove all habit from my life," he said, and after testing the thick, coarse rope, kicked away the chair.

As a codicil to this, a man once said, "To speak is a grave danger. People will not respond to what you say, and you will be distraught. But yet more dangerous is this: that someone might listen to you, and do what you say."

A second man thought to himself, "You are right," and said nothing.

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