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When you attempt to eliminate risk from your life, you eliminate along with it, your ability to function.
When you attempt to eliminate risk from your life, you eliminate along with it, your ability to function.
- Fred Penzel
I once watched a man
attempt to cross Belgravia Road. He approached the traffic light, turned away.
He approached it again, and again he turned away. He repeated this process at
least six times. Eventually he reached out to touch the button that would
activate the pedestrian crossing light. Then he withdrew his hand, wiped it
vigorously on his shirt and attempted to do it again. Again he withdrew. The
next time he covered his figure with his shirt, but still he could not touch
the button. The car behind me hooted, and I was forced to pull off. I was not
convinced that this man would ever make it across the road. Such is the nature
of OCD – obsessive, compulsive and utterly debilitating.