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March 04, 2005

At what point does one notice changes in themselves either physically or mentally? I mean, really notice?

There's the stories of obese people who, with gastric by-pass surgery, lose hundreds of pounds. Yet these people still feel fat; they haven't seen the change just as an anorexic at 80 pounds can still see themself as 150.

When someone sets out to change a habit it's been scientifically proven that it takes an average of three weeks for the habit to be broken (to stop eating baked goods, to maintain a work out schedule, to get up earlier, to read every day etc.). Does the person notice at three weeks or does it take longer?

The blog world is filled with people who make declarations of what they want to change, or changing or have changed but when does it actually happen? Because a lot of people talk about how they think they've changed but they haven't. Then there's those who have often changed for the worst and can't see it at all. These same people talk about themselves so much you'd think they'd notice real changes but they don't - they just talk about the ideal self instead of the real self.

For as long as I've been alive I've been a brown-eyed girl - that was even my favourite boogey tune in Banff which they DJ would play whenever I came into the club. My drivers license, passport and health documents all say I've brown eyes. Yet over the past year, people almost daily tell me how strong my green eyes are and for most of that time I didn't hear them. I just realized literally a couple of weeks ago that my eyes are in fact now very, very green and no longer brown. The changed must have happened within the last year or two but it took me until now to notice this about myself. It's not really groundbreaking or important but it's made me wonder if there's been any other changes I've been making (good or bad) that I've yet to realize.

Something to think on, at least.