Their habits may be all right, and our habits may be all right, but they are "different." Why should we not be willing to have them different?
Is there any reason for it except the very empty one that we consciously and unconsciously want every one else to be just like us, or to believe just as we do, or to behave just as we do?
And what sense is there in that?
"I cannot stand Mrs.So-and-so; she gets into a rocking-chair and rocks and rocks until I feel as if I should go crazy!" some one says.

But why not let Mrs.So-and-so rock?
It is her chair while she is in it, and her rocking.

Why need it touch us at all?
"But," I hear a hundred women say, "it gets on our nerves; how can we help its getting on our nerves ?" The answer to that is: "Drop it off your nerves." I know many women who have tried it and who have succeeded, and who are now profiting by the relief.

Sometimes the process to such freedom is a long one; sometimes it is a short one; but, either way, the very effort toward it brings nervous strength, as well as strength of character.
Take the woman who rocks.

Practically every time she rocks you should relax, actually and consciously relax your muscles and your nerves.