Will it End?

They say that we need 3 years to develop a good habit, but it takes only 3 days to have a bad habit.

Some of us are aware that we're having REAL bad habits and need to stop them. We knew they're bad and must be stopped but we still keep doing it although part of our consciousness say they must be stopped!

Temptation are hard to resists. We keep telling ourselves "this would be the last", "by tomorrow I'll stop it". But how many of us are really stopping the bad habit. Example of the bad habit - sleeping very late at night. Yes, like myself, I sleep very late at night. Even I was feeling very tired and drained, the clock strikes 1am, I would still feel "it's still early".

True enough, I often tell myself to go bed early but I still carry on with that bad habit. I keep doing it, my mind tells me to stop it, I keep doing it again. The flow just keep going on endlessly. Maybe the flow will stop if I put a stop to it.

Most people would say you must have determination to stop a bad habit. You're determined to stop it. However, things do not go the way it is. You make an effort to stop it but it's not working. "I've tried my best but it doesn't work." Did we really put much amount of effort to stop it? Or we lied to ourselves saying it is okay because we couldn't find the answer.

I myself have a few bad habits I couldn't get rid off. Sometimes I ask myself, why am I still doing it. And the answer I come up myself is "I've tried but I fail. I wasn't determined enough". Is it true? Is it because I wasn't determined enough? Or because it's alright to keep doing it despite knowing the consequences.