Our Differences Will Bring Us Together

Do you ever wonder if your personal habits are vastly different than those around you? Like you've been doing something one way your entire life before you saw someone do it differently and thought, "What the HELL! That's not right!"

Before I started dating Brett, I always buttered both sides of the bread whenever I made grilled cheese. I saw him make it once and he only buttered the outside and it was literally not until that moment that I realized how unnecessary it was for me to butter the inside of the sandwich. I've since ceased and desisted.

I also put the syrup in the refridgerator until Brett pointed out that his family did not do that and it made much more sense to enjoy syrup from the cabinet at room tempurature rather than icy cold from the fridge.

But those things are easy. They're clearly habits that we pick up from our parents and families and only when we live in close quarters with another person is there ever any light shed on how weird they might be.

What about more private habits, things that no one else ever sees you do? For example, I wonder if I use signficantly more or less toilet paper in a sitting than the average person. Is it normal that when I shave my legs I always go in the order: calves, thighs, toes, feet? Did I transition from sugared to black coffee at a regular pace or did my laziness advance me to bitter coffee at an earlier age? No one ever told me how to do these things explicitly, though to be honest I feel like I missed some very crucial information as I matured from child to teen to young adult (who dropped the liquid eyeliner ball, I'd like to know.) These are the things that keep me up at night, or rather, the things I think about in the bathroom at work.

This has been a serious post.