.A Bad Habit.

I'm sure everyone of us has bad habits (at the very least ONE). Whether it's not being able to control ur natural reactions, such as yawning; farting; burbing; etc, or even shaking ur legs when u're daydreaming. For me, it's the 20 little hard materials made of hairs on my fingers. NAILS.

I have tried to get rid of that bad habit since 5 years ago. I seriously tried. Well the first 2 years didn't work. I tried to let it grow till 0.15 cm, but I was nervous one day and started to bite it again. Then, the 3rd year, I succeeded in growing it till 1 cm!! (altho it's only the 2 thumb finger nails) The 4th year, all 10 fingernails grew 0.5 cm and lasted around... err... 1 month?! (okay... let me be honest... it's 2 weeks...) And FINALLY, the 5th year, I finally pat my back and said, 'well done!! Look at ur nails... How beautiful they are...' I even showed it proudly to my mom. (she always said that my fingernails are hopeless...) Then, one day, I decided to cut it short. Just because it's grown too long!! Whenever I lift things up, some of it will be bent and it hurts. Never realising that cutting it short was the biggest mistake!! I got nervous (again) one day and started to play with it. Then the upper layer of the nail started to peel off. (it doesn't hurt, mind u... but it leaves a rough surfaced nail) Great. Just the thing I need. As soon as one fingernail was ruined, one by one, the rest of the 9 followed. In just less than 2 weeks, 4 of my fingernails are short, rough and round looking things. Hopeless. Hopeless.

I always wonder what I like about playing my nails. It hurts and it's hard. Nothing to be fantasized about. But I still do it. At least I don't bite the whole nail off and swallow them... (some people do u know...) I went from biting them off then throwing them to half biting them then peel them off. The worse result is the latter one cos when u peel the nail, they are not evenly done across the nail. So yeah.. u'll end up with a extremely short nail just by trying to even it out.

WARNING! when u're nervous, just put ur hands in the pockets!!