I have what many people would consider a compulsive personality. For example, while I know that to me this isn’t the reasoning that motivates a particular kind of behavior, people observing me might conclude I was washing my hands because I figured I had gotten them dirty in the process of washing them the first time. No. My actual reasons are much more complicated than that but that is pretty much why.
Anyway, I think I’ve figured a way to get this to work for me. All I have to do is set myself the habit of doing one thing that deliberately breaks one of my compulsions each day. And that’s going splendidly. In fact, I was doing this barely a week when I felt like I should do something to deliberately break two or three compulsions each day. Once I get myself going like this, it’s hard to stop. So I figure there’s an at least forty percent chance that I’ll collapse into a black hole by Flag Day. More on this as it comes to pass.
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A compulsion about compulsions? Suggestion: get a very wide rubber band and put it on your wrist. Each time you feel the compulsion, twang the rubber band till it hurts just a bit. Or if you were just joking, then pretend you get a rubber band, and…
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Surely a compulsion about compulsions is the best sort to have! It’s a bit better than having to worry about picking out just the right rubber band. I mean, we get so many free in the mail and from the weekly newspaper, but they’re not really good compulsion rubber band. But then picking out a good set from the office supply store, especially the one that might be a front for an alien dimension? That’s harder work.
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