Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Psychology Human Habits Human Habits People and their strange habits. Where does this strange behavior come from? During this past week, I was able to observe many of my peers. From this, I noticed some unusual habits of theirs. While sitting in my speech class at Harbor College, I watched my classmates give introductory speeches in front of the class. Some of the students were swaying back and forth-, which made it difficult to view them. A few of them were tapping their fingers on the podium. As I can recall, one female continuously tapped her long nails on the table (to me this became a nuisance). What I noticed most was that many of them could not keep still-only 5 people out of the 30 produced smooth speeches, those that were confident and had previous experience. From my observation, it was evident that they were nervous and scared. Last Saturday, I went out with a group of friends for dinner. While drinking a bottle of Corona, my attention was shifted to my close friend, Kenny. I caught Kenny tapping his mug of beer 3 consecutive times with his index finger before taking a drink. A few minutes surpassed and he repeated this act again. I also looked at my watch to discover that this habit of his occurred every 3 minutes. I was astounded. Kenny was not only tapping his beer but also repeated this action at the same time span. I wanted to question Kenny about this enigmatic tendency except I was afraid of offending him. Several nights later, I decided to question him about this unusual doing. Kenny had told me, “It’s for good luck. My lucky number is 3 and so I must tap everything in my hand 3 times.” Kenny believed it would bring him good luck, well so far nothing bad has happened to him. My last observation took place the next day after the outing with Kenny. I invited a friend of mine to my house to watch a football game. While watching the Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos play against each other, I caught sight of my friend, Paul, shaking his left leg while sitting on the sofa. Even when Paul and I conversed, he continued shaking his leg. I annoyingly asked him to keep his leg still- although, he continued to do so without realizing it. That is one of my pet peeves. I realized that many people share that same habit (shaking leg) as Paul. And a large number of them don’t even know they are shaking their leg. Why do they do this? As for this peculiar yet common habit, I am unable to provide an answer. I can only guess that they are following a beat from their favorite song. Strange habits. Yes, we all have habits and little do we know that they are HABITS. Being situated around my peers, I had the ability to observe each of their behaviors. I realized that each individual habit differed in style as well as meaning. Some of them were nervous; others for superstitious reasons and some just did it without knowing so. Our different actions are what create uniqueness in life. Bibliography: None Word Count: 528
Copyright © 1998-2008 College Term Papers, INC All Rights Reserved. DMCA Notifications and Requests