fragilepieces -> RE: Breaking a rule on purpose.....WHY??? (12/14/2008 5:36:24 PM)
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The limiting of soda, is conditioning. There is nothing wrong with that nor is there anything wrong with being punished for it. It happens everyday in vanilla situations even. For example, you might be starting a new job early in the morning and you are used to staying up half the night. You know you should go to bed, but stay up anyways. The next day you are tired. You eventually learn to condition yourself to go to bed earlier so this does not happen again, but it might take awhile for that to happen especially if you are in the habit of being a night owl. I see it like this, you need time to accept the conditioning. If you are in the habit of drinking tons of soda everyday, it is going to take some time to condition your body to drink something else. It's is difficult to break any habit, physically and mentally. I do not see that you broke the rule on purpose. Mentally and physically, you have used soda before for comfort. It's habit and conditioning, not deliberately disobeying. On the other hand if you thought, this rule is silly or had malice intent when you did it, such as I'm drinking this soda because He did xyz, then yes, I see it as on purpose, deliberately disobeying. Bottom line is, we are human. Everyone is going to make mistakes, everyone does not always live up their own expectations or those set by another person, no one is always 100% perfect. Eventually you will find yourself reaching for water or something else when your body adapts to the new conditions. It just takes times. I would not beat myself up over it and feel as if I had failed.
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