There’s this question on an ocd account on Instagram: what would you do if you didn’t have ocd? 🤔 I would do every single thing that I do now but, I guess, you could say minus the ruminations equals utter ruination. I’d work as hard as anyone else. I’d push the scribbles much more comfortably and ably. I’d love the soccer games I get to play in the AstroTurf all of the more. I’d smile as hard as I know full-well my natural smile was put there to do. I’d run and run and walk and walk some more… and talk a helluva lot less, and definitely be outrageously proud of myself. Yeah, that’s it, I suppose. And one thing I do, even with the ocd, and that is to hope that those people in my life who mean the most to me won’t fall away while I truly try to settle this thing as best as I can because, well, if they like how I am now, flaws ‘n’ all, I can promise much more of the same only this time with them knowing that I am there and in the moment one hundred percent x