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- Subject: Keys and psychological aspects
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.124359.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
- From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Date: 20 Nov 92 12:43:59 NZST
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- llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
- >
- > rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
- >
-
- >>i'm terrified of losing my keys. of course, part of it is the
- >>$2000+ fine associated with having to rekey the entire observatory, along with
- >>kitt peak, the MMT, and mount lemmon, but part of it is just irrational...i
- >>won't be able to get into my house, i'll be left out in the cold (yeah, it's
- >>only 68f here, heh), and so on...
- >>
- >>so i always keep 'em in my pocket. along with my knife.
- >
- > this whole key thread fascinates me. i'm notorious for *always* losing
- > my keys. i prefer to keep several sets around; by the time the last
- > set is lost, the first has been found.
-
- VERY interesting. Up 'til about 3 years ago, I had a habit of losing keys,
- but then I was given a keyring by my mum, which I value a bit seeing as she
- is no longer resident in this country.
- So I developed the habit of keeping them in my pocket, and checking on them
- or playing with them every few minutes or so, just to see they were still
- there, and not on the verge of falling out.
- By some strange coincidence, it was also about this time that I started
- developing a bit of self-confidence, and adopting some idiosyncratic (sp ?)
- habits which made me more like I always saw myself, instead of someone
- displaying what he thought others wanted to see. Turns out that I think I'm
- more interesting now than I was then, despite more of my (many) flaws coming
- to the surface.
- A bit of self-confidence is a wonderful thing.
-
- > marmoset said something about losing keys as an avoidance of
- > responsibility, normalcy, stability? maybe it's a way of feeding
- > into the whole dependency/take care of me cycle.
-
- Not in this case. More a habit of not concentrating on what was going on
- around me.
-
- Tony Q.
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