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CHANGE



A couple weeks back, while reading a post on my friend's blog about the importance of drinking water, I decided to change my consumption habits from carbonated drinks to water. At that time, I was so convinced that I couldn't do it, I said to myself 'water is so bitter' 😣, I'd probably puke if I take too much of it 😣. I know you're probably thinking 'is it not the same water that we were taught in high school to be colorless, odorless and tasteless?' Well, to me, at that time, water was bitter and I couldn't imagine myself going everyday with that 'bitter taste' in my mouth.

Day 1 went by and I was able to live with the 'bitter taste' in my mouth. Day 2 up to day 6 felt the same way. On day 7, a friend gave me a bottle of carbonated drink along with a slice of cake from her birthday goodies. There it was, my first temptation. Since I couldn't bring myself to buy carbonated drinks, temptation decided to show up with a free one. I took the first sip and then the second, lo and behold, I couldn't bring myself to take another sip, I had to throw it all out. The tables had turned, the carbonated drink that I loved and couldn't live without became bitter to me 😕.


It's been over a month now, I drink a sizable amount of water daily and I'm enjoying myself doing it. I don't miss drinking carbonated drinks anymore, instead, I'd rather have myself a chilled glass of water after a long sunny day 😋. Turns out our science teachers were right all along, water is actually tasteless 😅.


Sometimes, when we feel like making changes in our lives ranging from the simple stuff like sleeping less or more to letting go of some friends or ending that generational feud; even when we know that those changes would affect our lives for the best, we feel it's impossible to do it. We feel like the change is bitter and sometimes, we might actually be right.


However, if we are willing to suck it up and push ourselves to make those all too important changes, we'd find out that although day 1 might be hard and day 10 a little less hard, by day 100 we wouldn't even notice. It just begins with the little steps, remember we agreed, success is the journey 😏. Don't worry, even if temptation comes on day 7, because we've tasted what it feels like to make that change, after a few sips, we'd be like 'nahhhh, I prefer me some water' 😉.

Comments

Unknown said…
Intuitive piece... I do have a preference for gradual organismic changes as they ease into transitions rather than soonte spontaneous and transformational changes
1 May 2018 at 01:15
Aigbe Ehis I said…
Amazing, entertaining, and more so, educative. I love this, thanks a lot.
1 May 2018 at 01:17
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