Down the trodden path

Whilst returning from work to home, I came across this grassy patch of land on the corner of the junction leading to my abode, and on this foliate patch is a trodden path. I usually follow this path but this morning I was forced to notice and experiment on peculiar human traits. A quarter of the way down the path, a girl appeared from the other end and she amazingly got off thr path to make way for me, now I usually would do the same whether the other person moves off or not, but not today, instead I pursued my initial course and once I had passed her I noticed that she moved back onto the path! The striking feature is that she really did not need to come back to path, she could have maintained her initial bearings and that would have been a quicker and more efficient path nonetheless.

This led me to conclude that humans are creatures of habit and they would always prefer following a carved way than make a new one up. Is this is a good thing or bad? It really depends and like I have previously mentioned there has to be a balance for anything to be successful and again for human civilisation it is necessary for a balance to be maintained between habit and innovation. Too much of a new way would leave the world wasting much time trying to find new methods to carry out tasks when for certain tasks one need not do so. Balance my friend balance.