Is It Just Me

Let me ask you this question, do you consider yourself either slightly or majorly obsessive compulsive? For the most part, its a disorder that can affect a person mentally to the point where it takes complete control of one's life and can sometimes ruin a relationship. If you think about it, we all have our own quirks that some, most, or all people tend to see as either reasonable, weird, or strange. Its the things we do on a semi-daily basis that are deemed as normal by our standards. Here is a little known entertainment fact: Did you know Marc Summers, who was the host of a widely popular television show, Double Dare and Family Double Dare, is obsessive compulsive about cleaning, which probably wasn't good thing when hosting a show that was all about being messy.

Without a doubt, each and every one of us like to feel clean and smell fresh for not only ourselves but for other people as well. When it comes to one's cleanliness, it can be taken to the extreme to where a person can become like Tony Shalhoub's television character Monk or Jack Nicholson's character in the movie As Good As It Gets. Personally speaking, I'm a person who washes my hands constantly due to the fact that I'm around kids on a semi-daily basis. It can be a unfortunate situation indeed when the cold/flu season rolls around and you have a building full of runny noses. Kids that will use anything but a tissue to wipe their noses clean and then want to hang on you, which is always a bad thing.

We all have bad habits that tend to be either compulsive or obsessive compulsive. The one habit that people generally share is biting one's own fingernails which can be considered annoying to some, most, or all people. Essentially, its something we don't realize we're doing until someone points it out to us or one almost makes one's finger(s) bleed, which I have done on occasion. Again personally speaking, I tend to bite/chew my fingernail(s) when I'm worried about something or thinking about something to write for a potential yodaism. A yodaism that can either take minutes, hours, or days to think up and then write about. In a sense, if I don't do it then ideas won't be able to flow smoothly in my head.

For the question can be asked, do you consider yourself a superstitious person? Countless stories can be told of athletes, celebrities, musicians, and people like ourselves doing certain rituals over and over again. For some people, they certain rituals before ever boarding an airplane such as stepping on the plane with their right foot and touching the top of the entrance. For a person like myself, whenever I enter or leave a room I have to knock on wood and its something I've been doing for years. In some aspect, I do consider myself superstitious because 1.) I don't walk under any ladders whatsoever and 2.) I have a green rabbit's foot on my key chain.

In retrospect, whether it a person's handwriting, cleaning the house, making one's bed, taking a shower, alphabetizing one's CD/DVD collection, etc. a person will have some idiosyncrasies that people will find peculiar. People who know, know that I like to draw and they have seen my drawings, but what they don't know about me is that I throw away perfectly good drawing that are in my mind stink and draw them until they look perfect which can be frustrating from my standpoint. When it comes to drawing a character that I have made up, I tend be a perfectionist. In the end, a person will ultimately ask this question either to one's self or to others and that question is do other people do these things or is it just me?