Compromising Candy Crush

A wise man once asked:

"Where in your life are you compromising?"

I never liked that question much as it got me to thinking of all the things in my life that I wasn't doing:

I don't spend enough time exercising, cleaning, repairing my house, meditating, with my family, with my friends, exploring, riding my bike, creating, communicating... The list goes on.

I don't know why I don't do those things but I know what I do when I feel guilty about not doing them, I hide. I hide in the land of the sugar bomb blasts and while away my minutes (and hours, let's be honest!) matching colours and shapes and delighting in the sugar high of a mixed colour blast with a striped candy. Just one more go, just one more level, I'll stop as soon as I've completed this one, ok, I'll stop as soon as I run out of lives, ok, I'll stop at midnight.

Then I stop. And then comes the judgement, if I had just NOT spent the last hour playing that game I could have done my dishes, called my mum and practiced my short form. Where in my life am I compromising? Hmmm.

So, reset.

Today I am deleting the games from my phone. No more candy crush, no more candy mania, no more cover orange. They have to go. I gave up smoking 5 years ago so I know what addiction is like and I know how to beat it. I know you don't keep a packet of cigarettes lying around in case you're tempted and I know that habits are easier to make than to break so I'll be replacing them with healthier habits like some of the things I mentioned above.

Wish me luck!