I am the laughing-stock in my circle of friends for being the girl who obsesses about every little thing under the sun, the girl who shudders at dust and inches away from dirt. I need order and method in my life, like a certain Hercule Poirot. Disorderliness gets to me. I have been called everything from 'compulsive to 'weird' and 'manic'.
How am I obsessive and compulsive? Ways, let me count thee.
How am I obsessive and compulsive? Ways, let me count thee.
- I don't doodle on my notebooks. Ever. My friends get scratched and screeched at if they make marks on my stationery. Even a little dot upsets me.
- When I'm walking, I like sticking to the square tiles, or the round patterns - of the floor. Keeping my feet inside the design of the floor gives me a strange kick.
- I like making lists. Enough said.
- I am a stickler for cleanliness. Scruffiness and untidiness upsets me. That would explain my spotless room.
- This is a follow-up on the previous point. I love cleaning. I think it's therapeutic. When I'm tired, or cranky, or even feeling out of sorts, all I need is to sit down and clean/dust my books, or CDs. Or even polish silver cutlery. It's an instant pick-me-up.
- I need proper punctuation. And proper grammar. This not only backs up my obsessive-compulsive point, it makes me a Grammar Nazi (as someone put it so well.) I expect I shall soon be ostracised from Facebook for correcting people's grammar and spelling.
- I like stacking things in rows or piles. The other day, at the canteen, I was stacking the tea-cups in even piles, till my friends jumbled them up. The world, I tell you, is a mean, mean place.
- If I'm reading, and I want to take a break, I need to reach the end of the chapter for me to put the book down. I simply cannot stop in the middle, no matter if the chapter-end is 20 pages away - I'll still read on, then stop.
- All the pens in my pen-stands are arranged nib-downwards. This is done so that the ink flows easily.
- I need all the folders in my laptop arranged in a certain way. Folder, sub-folder, then folder inside that, and so on.
- If one of the incense sticks I've lit during my morning puja happens to go out without burning all the way to the end, it spoils the rest of my day.
- When I'm cooking, I need the ingredients cut perfectly. No lopsidedly-sliced peppers, please. Or untidily chopped mushrooms.
- I think the Colin spray is one of mankind's greatest inventions.
- I get very depressed if I lose something, be it a lip balm, or be it a pen. The world almost ceases to turn until I find it again. Really.
- Do you notice that there are 15 points? I could have stopped it at 12, or 13. But it has to be rounded off!
In fact, the very fact that I'm even writing this post should be ample proof.
I imagine I would be a very difficult person to live with. Woe to the man who will eventually end up with me, if at all that ever happens. *sigh*
I imagine I would be a very difficult person to live with. Woe to the man who will eventually end up with me, if at all that ever happens. *sigh*
13 comments:
First, you should be open about things...for all you know, you could end up living with a woman(if you choose to come out of your state of denial :P)
Second, you "evenly" "rounded it off" to 15? :P
Third, (this should have been first) WHOA!
rounding up would be 20 no? and what if you were readING a BOOK with no chapters? just one long thingy...
also, wow!
PS: Hopefully going to be a long one
Ahem, so while reading this post of yours I found many things similar as well as dissimilar. So if you are the Queen of OCD, I have no qualms about proclaiming myself to be the warlord.:D
So here I go
1]I massacre my notebooks. Eerie one liners to long poems to sketches, my note book will be your nightmare :D
2]Ditto. I find it relaxing rather a euphoric delirium to walk and often a reason to walk a long distance.
3]Ditto. Lists and lists
4]If you see my room... well enough said, I can't proceed further or you might even delete this comment. T_T
5]Nah not ditto
6]Ditto. Bad spellings turn me off and I hate it even more when I have to correct it. Chances are high that we both might be ostracised and we have to a launch a movement for similar pariahs.
7]I have tried it. I found it boring.Telling you a secret I am not good at arranging stuffs. T_T
8]Again a ditto and a sigh
9]I don't have a pen stand. I mean I had one but lost it while I was changing room. :(
10]Ditto, ditto ditto. I love making folders and sub-folders. ^_^
11]This one goes to my roomie.
12]I don't know how to cook. T_T
13]What's that? I have a vague idea. :D
14]Ditto. I go crazy.
15]Again a ditto. "Evenly rounded"
^_^
PS 2- A question you asked me in your previous blog post....
-Am in Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune.
I didn't answered there because I did not wanted that to be the thirteenth comment. *grin*
@ Leonardo: First, now THAT is never happening! Second, sorry - mistake. I meant, just round off. Third, yes, my sentiments exactly. :P
@ Indranil: Rounding up - mostly I do it to multiples of 5. And books with no chapters- been there, done that - I had tremendous trouble with Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe! Heh.
I absolutely despise someone dog-ears pages in books instead of using a bookmark. That's one of my pet peeves.
when someone*
Actually, all of these points/issues/symptoms do not sum up to an OCD, clinically that is. The clinical condition is Paranoia. :D
@ Brainless: Wow, that is probably the longest comment on my blog, EVER! :P
@ Divya: Haha, well, yes, maybe. ;)
Dude, seriously????? This is like reading my own blog, I've done a pretty similar post months ago. Are we related???? I LOVE Colin, its a prized possession in my cleaning kit. I even have favorite rags and for last Diwali my sister gifted me a bottle of Cif. I make lists for everything and organising things calms me down instantly. And, I label shoe boxes and jewelry boxes. OK must stop now!
@ Poo: You sound just like my kind of person! Went through your blog, love it! Will blogroll you. :-)
Aww, thanks :))
Hey just came across ur blog... luvd it...
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