By Katie Tallo
There was this woman I used to know. She had a morning routine. She’d head to the local coffee shop, buy a large vanilla latté and a ginger cookie, drive to a park, sit on a bench and have a few cigarettes. By mid-morning, she’d start to feel sick, dehydrated and jumpy, so she’d have another cigarette. She’d squeeze in a bit of work, eat lunch at her desk to try and catch up, but most of her time was frittered away on meaningless tasks. That was her routine for years.
She was unhappy and unhealthy because of her habits. She was so joyless that each day she vowed to change, but then her habits would kick in every morning like clockwork and she’d find herself smoking on that park bench once again, wondering how she got there, wondering why she was trapped, why she was so out of control,... More...
