Consider the following comments on habit.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Will Durant
A habit is a decision you only have to make once, for better or worse.
The routines that once saved me became the walls I forgot I built.
We notice the habits of others and call our own behaviour personality.
Half of who I am is just the path my feet stopped questioning.
Write a reflective piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your thinking and the way you express it.
A way into this prompt
A reflective approach treats habit as the quiet architecture of a self, the part of us that runs while we are paying attention to something else. Open with a specific routine, a morning ritual, a way of speaking to yourself, a small compulsion, and notice when it stopped being a choice. Then weigh two stances: habit as liberation, freeing the mind from constant decision so it can attend to what matters, and habit as a cage, automating a version of you that may no longer fit. A useful structural move contrasts a habit you deliberately built with one you absorbed without consent, from family, from circumstance, from repetition. Caution: resist the self-help promise that any habit can be swapped at will, since some are woven so deeply into who you are that changing them feels like changing person.