I figure I’ll knock this out during the in-between of packing and travelling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’re pretty much as good as we’re going to get; deal with what comes as it comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This really kind of fits with my approach to a lot of different things; things happen, you deal, and move forward as best you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can’t plan everything.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n And your inability to plan everything doesn’t make you a bad person. Yes, you should take reasonable measures, but things just happen someimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How you react to those things speaks more to you as a pest, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today’s prompt really pairs well with the line of thinking — <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0Are you superstitious?<\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The older I get, the less superstitious I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That doesn’t go well with many of the standard OCD behaviors. No, nothing bad is going to happen because you didn’t check the lock on the door a certain number of times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You didn’t lock the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most probable: Nothing happens at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A bit worse: Someone comes in<\/p>\n\n\n\n Worse, still, they take your stuff<\/p>\n\n\n\n Worst of at all, he\/she hurts you<\/p>\n\n\n\n But unless you live in a really bad place, the first option is the most likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Something to discuss with my shrink next time I speak to her; what’s her take on things like superstition? Am I doing it wrong that it really doesn’t bother me much anymore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n (No. I’m pretty sure she’d say that my response is the healthy one. It’s like I’m learning or something.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, even absent the cogitative behavioral therapy techniques, I viewed most of the things people did as just foolish. (And thinking that makes me a bad person….ANOTHER THING I SHOULDN’T THINK!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prepare appropriately in a reasonable amount of time you’ve dedicated to preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then go do it. Whatever it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I figure I’ll knock this out during the in-between of packing and travelling. We’re pretty much as good as we’re going to get; deal with what comes as it comes. This really kind of fits with my approach to a lot of different things; things happen, you deal, and move forward as best you can. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}