The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102465 Message #2077303
Posted By: Ebbie
14-Jun-07 - 06:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: Truly Strange People
Subject: RE: BS: Truly Strange People
Every now and again I bring myself up short because I have found myself obsessing on something. For instance, left sock first (fast foot, you see- right foot is stronger thus making the other foot faster. lol) or when I went walking, going down the alphabet inserting beginning letters. (for instance, 'ale'; bale, dale, gale, hale, male, pale, rale, sale, tale, vale, wale. Or 'ark', bark; dark, hark, lark, mark, park) That way lies madness. So I stop.
Perhaps it has to do with when I was a kid, in a very religious household, and I noted that my prayers often resulted in the opposite outcome. So I started praying for opposite what I wanted (For instance, if we kids were told that "if it didn't rain on Saturday, we'd go to the Coast" I prayed for rain. If there is a personal god he must mourn his children.) *g*