Twenty-one days to make or break a habit, they say. I'm not sure where this puts me (am I on the road to anything at this point?) but I can't help but think it seems like a lot longer than that until the decay that has piled up can be scraped out, or until the voids (cavities, if we're going to play with this partial dental metaphor, which I'm not sure I want to, 'cause really, dentists?) are filled.

Or maybe some things aren't habitual, really, they're more than that, and no 21 day period is going to erase or create them, depending on your take on it all. Those things. They're bigger than habits. I'm just not sure what they are at that point.

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