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Old 06-22-2001, 12:29 PM   #9
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i guess it's OCD if you clean it several times after it is already clean--not often seen in our dojo cleaning, unless there is one task many are trying to avoid, and so the carpet might get vacuumed a couple or three times
I thought my first sensei might have OCD when i started there...i've always been a cleaning fanatic , so didn't mind the cleaning, but one day i saw him lining up the boxes of bandaids in the first aid/cleaning closet. Oh come on, i thought, but then tried to think of other reasons he might do that. I came to realize every little detail was important, and focus on each task, no matter how small, should be absolute. It became important that things should be not only clean, but that even clean disorder encouraged disorder in other areas. I smile now when i line up the chairs in the visitors' area, or the papers and pens on the desk, and wonder if i need a bit of prozac in my morning coffee.
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