QUEZON City, Philippines (September 11) – Admit it, we all sometimes just want to burst out! We want the world to know what and how we feel at the moment but there are no exact words that can describe whatever we are feeling when we are so overwhelmed with our emotions, that is why we resort to uttering words that we sometimes unintentionally and intentionally do. But if you’re going to ask “why is it so hard to conquer this habit?” well, just like what the band One Republic expressed with their song, “I feel something so right doing the wrong thing” yes! You got it right, it feels good! It feels like we can express and tell the whole world what we exactly feel without saying all of the verses in the poem that you read last night or the quotes that you saw in fb a while ago, because all of those are like compiled in one word! It is like you already say that you got irritated because your tire got stuck up in a gutter or your dog just said he loves you by giving you a little, brownish, awful, smelly gift on your carpet by just saying one big word! But, the not-so-good part there is that it is a swear, [swearing is bad you know!] and by the time our mouth say it, we can never get it back to our throat and just crush it in our stomach. The truth is, it is still a swear and A. SWEAR. IS. A. SWEAR!
But it’s about enough about the blah blah blah of swearing, of course the main reason of this thing that you are reading right now is how do we break the swearing habit?
One of my friends told me that it is really not good to tolerate someone to use bad words all his life like it’s included in his breakfast or lunch or dinner or like he can’t live for 1 hour without uttering it. She also gave me some friendly tips on how to break the swearing habit (of course I wouldn’t share it to you if it is invalid, so I, myself did some research to prove that it is tried, tested and proven effective.)
Note: these tips are not based with their effectiveness.
First, if you can have someone to accompany you with this tip then do so, two hard-headed heads are harder than one, nah, just kidding, of course you must have someone who is not used to swearing or someone who is used to but is willing to renew his life and be born again. The reason why is that both of you will have to work it out together as one. You and your break-swearing buddy could try to deal with something or with consequences that you both don’t want or afraid to do [ever!] that whenever you or your partner say any swears, you will do the consequences that you first deal with each other. Second is not to listen to music that has profanity or explicit contents on it, the less you hear bad words the more you probably has less chance to say it! But of course you two are both stubborn so you both don’t want to suffer from such trials or give up your favorite ear-braking song in order to renew your life, so the third thing that you could do is to produce a “piggy bank of swear(s)” [put a colon on the ‘s’ if you think you will never swear anymore after you see your 5 dollar resting on the bottom of the stomach of your piggy bank] going back, so yep, you can provide a jar or a piggy bank that whenever you or your partner say any swears, you will put corresponding amount of money depending on your deal. It actually a double-purpose consequence! Once you and your partner make your piggy bank full, you can just simply get all of your earnings [remember, that those are still your earning from swearing!] exchange it with your partner and just spend it with whatever you want or donate it into a charity or give it to the less fortunate in the streets. But you know and you badly want to still renew your life and also you love every piece of your money so you will never say any swears just to put it into jar and soon give it to your buddy [or donate it, you are so bad!]. If you think that your piggy banks will never help you out with your situation, try this fourth tip: Put a rubber band or a hair tie that could serve as an electric shock collar on a dog to eliminate bad behavior in your wrist and give it a firm snap everytime you catch yourself swearing. The thinking behind is that your brain will come to associate swearing with pain and, over time, will cause you to mentally shy away from using bad words.
If you know you have a high tolerance with pain or too brave to face any consequences or rich to just give your buddy money or love a song so much that you want it to be a part of your life forever just always remember that the latter part of this tip will always be about yourself. It will still be about your attitudes and your way of thinking. The choice is yours. If you really want to renew something within you then it will be a conscious effort from you to change everything little-by-little. You might want to practice positive thinking to motivate yourself not to utter any swears or you can just pay attention to your swearing habit and do some mental or vocabulary exercise like changing your expression from swearing to blessing [oh please no, I’m not kidding here!] instead of %$$#^&*&! Why not “please God, bless me” or “God, please renew me” [admit it, I know that you know I’m right, eh?] But of course, things don’t just happen in an instant, in order for you to at change everything that you are used to, you must of course be patient to yourself. You might spend some days, months, or years training yourself not to swear but all of that patience will pay off! Come to think of it, it will be beneficial to you! More people could actually want to befriend you because of your manners and you can also influence them not to swear again too. It will be beneficial to all, I. AM. TELLING. YOU.
So if you really want to break your swearing habit then you must work it out first from yourself. It might sound difficult but just like what we mention a while ago, it will pay off.
Reference:
Wikihow.com/Stop-Swearing
(written by Donna Marie Rodriguez, edited by Jay Paul Carlos, additional research by Lovely Ann Cruz)
