Doing/Saying things like "If I ____ before ____ then ____ is ____"
Like when Mathilde would say things like "If I reach the bend before the car, Manech will come home alive."
I do that ALL the time. Just for fun. Not sure if i believe it...
Yep, I did it a lot as a child, and occasionally now if I REALLY REALLY want something. I don't think it's OCD if you only do it occasionally.
Also, I know when I do it that it won't really work that way - it's just an indication of the importance of the thing, of how much I want to do ANYthing to get whatever it is.
That's the way I saw it working with her, although she seems to really believe it might work, she gets so depressed when she doesn't get a definitive answer.
Re what someone said about the "twisted way" that the items worked out: I liked the way that they were so completely open-ended, yet she still believed he was coming back.
I do this all the time. :/
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