Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Borderline Obsessive Compulsive? I think we all have these quirky little idiosyncrasies that don't necessarily indicate OCD in the strict medical sense, but at the same time are not easily justified logically. Stuff that would better be termed as strong preferences and pronations. I finally realized recently that I've got a strong preference for doing things left-before-right. In the weightroom, I tend to do all exercises with my left arm before my right. Before LASIK, I always put my left contact in before the right. I tend to put my left sock & shoe on before their right counterparts. Left pant leg before right. I clip the nails on my left hand before right. A lot of small things like that.

I mean, it doesn't kill me to do it in reverse order. Sometimes I'll do so intentionally just to spice things up. But just the fact that that IS spicing it up is kinda telling of how deeply rooted I am in my ways, huh? Compulsive? Maybe. But can we not call it "obsessive"? That gives it such a negative connotation. (Like the word "cartel". I think I'd be a lot less biased against OPEC (and perhaps the Middle East) if the word cartel wasn't so often used to describe the drug trade. =/)

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