For a long time, I was bragging that my only habit is not having other habits. However, as getting older, I started enjoying certain rituals that I didn’t care for before. They don’t say in vain that aging stiffens the human spirit.
Self-respect
Pertness
Need
Monkey business
M. Houellebecq, again: “Let’s put a chimpanzee in a tiny cage fronted by concrete bars. The animal would go berserk, throw itself against the walls, rip out its hair, inflict cruel bites on itself, and in 73% of cases will actually end up killing itself. Let’s now make a breach in one of the walls, which we will place right next to a bottomless precipice. Our friendly sample quadrumane will approach the edge, he’ll look down, remain at the edge for ages, return there time and again, but generally, he won’t teeter over the brink; and in all events, his nervous state will be radically assuaged.”
Dostoyevsky
No time
Upon my arrival in the US, I was working for a certain company, while failing to acquire a single friend. I started worrying about that, even considering that something is wrong with my social skills. Later, I realized why is that: people here work so much that they don’t have time for their immediate families, let alone friends.
