what current habit/behavior/lifestyle change in you marks a memory?
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Covid changed many lives but also brought changes in lifestyles/habits in a few who realized what life is during that time.
Many movies, YT videos and other mediums brought them. However, there are dimers who might have brought changes in life styles or inculcated new habits before or after covid due to influence of place, person or other reasons,
I just wanted to know those GOOD HABITS inculcated for the benefit of me and Dimers.
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I Start with Mine ( Let me be honest and not boasting of me, a few which tried to implement backfired of course)
MEMORIES I CARRY FROM UK
Drinking black coffee or black tea marks my memory to London. My office canteen used to sell coffee with milk or tea with milk for around 2 pounds which is equivalent to Rs. 165. I forcefully had to drink black tea with a dip with hot water (free) that comes for 40P. I still continue and can now drink black coffee or tea with out sugar. Helps me to cut my Sugar ( not diabetes).
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MEMORIES I CARRY FROM US
Talking in low voice, maintain calm ( to some extent, emotional quotient) and wishing people in lifts ( now i stopped as it backfired), washing and ironing clothes, clean utensils, clean own car by myself, buying online junk gadgets, diving deep into details, watch people, lane discipline ( Now stopped, i liked the zigzag part here), deep dive into details of anything i am doing ( can say a little procedural way of doing thing), punctual to work ( early rise was my habit since childhood which is very prevalent there) , a little home Barbour work a few times but finally headed to saloon though
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Covid, brought many changes
More talk with inhouse mates ( i mean mates now , though family), having lunch, dinner together, brooming and mopping, cleaning utensils ( MAID LOST JOB) , own hair cut, a little behavioral changes, Latest addition stop buying junk instead buy gold.
That's all folks. Looks funny though but was happy my each action in the above lines marks a memory.
Now your turn i will surely try to inculcate if some good habits listed
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Now all this (life) is just inertia, bonus.. for you.
I do not quite pin such changes down to any strategic infliction points (like Covid-19).
Over the years, I have taught myself to not use cuss words, abuses like MC, BC, MF.. even as an exclamation.
Trying to eat in moderation.
Or rather, having a morsel less than what I feel gives me the 'full' feeling, is another thing that I have been trying to (and mostly succeeding in) over the years.
(I avoid eating at huge gatherings, functions, occasions, free prasadam meals, bhandara/langar. But still when i have to HAVE TO eat at community kitchens or caterers made stuff, I literally restrict myself to the core two three things, including the flat breads.)
In general, many decades back, someone indirectly taught me too.. that acknowledging a service and thanking for the same.. does not make us small.
The person had thanked the autorickshaw driver and upon seeing me puzzled, that conversation/ coaching happened.
Just like you seem to have got weird looks, if you greeted a desi in a lift.. in the subcontinent (south Asia)
sometimes call-centre people too get puzzled if I am thanking them during a phone call.
Many of those, then end up telling me that: I do not have to thank them 'as it is our job'.
Again DEFINITELY NOT boasting, but since in our childhood we were taught that it is a good thing to leave wheat flour by the colony of black ants, offer a place to rest and drinking water to passer-bys
some of those imprinted '🧠conditioning🧠' have now become as natural as breathing.
(Meaning, i do not realise it, that I am doing it.)
Others though.. sometimes freak out.
Now the acquaintances, friends, elders caution that you offering water to or entertaining random delivery person, postman, worker category people inside your home might get you killed (if someone has the intent to mug, rob).
I just do not know what I am supposed to do!
We were taught that things like having good, having water, excelling water (urinating) are supposed to be done while sitting.
Irrespective of weather I in the Sahara desert or the Arctic (cold) desert
and Irrespective of whether it is May or December.. I offer worker class people to take a seat (often inside) and have water.
I do not analyse, profile the person.. nor ask them if they have an intention to rob me, murder me.. prior to asking them for water.
Walking.. and brisk walking whenever possible.. is something I end up going back and forth on.
But usually if I am not in pain, if i am not unwell and if I overcome laziness then i walk.. unless time is of essence and traffic would permit a vehicle to be faster.
Safe-keeping of bicycles being an issue, if in a place where rental cycles are available.. I upgrade from walking to pedalling the cycle.🙂
Never really was in a habit of writing personal diaries.
But for important incidents, events or thoughts.. I am in the habit of sending myself an e-mail, SMS.
This includes a row
keywords: wherein I include the keywords which i am likely to search for, later in life.
Likewise if I meet someone whom I might want to keep a record of or feel like saving their number
I again draft a SMS with their name, number, date, place of initial meeting and context. Maybe include tidbit details or their kid's names or professional background.
Then i SMS it to their number and e-mail to self too.
The redundancy of having both e-mails, SMS is to have access to the information even if either of them are not immediately accessible.
(Such notes, could be for anyone from a cab driver, autorickshaw driver to someone whom I met in their professional capacity.)
P.S.: I am not judging those who use cuss words, nor am I claiming to be supernatural immortal who never uses cuss words.
It is just that I myself try to not use terms like MF, MC, BC. And if young children are within earshot, then I try to avoid using even the "c" word (the desi C word i meant).
to me.. it does not matter if such young children know me or whether ai know them.
I am too conscious and a bit uncomfortable even when others use such words around children who might then pick such words up.
also, I am not judging anyone who even regularly eat buffet or standing up, regularly gulp water while standing or expell it out while standing.
I was merely mentioning some of the things that I keep reminding myself. (You used a more sophisticated word 'inculcate'.)