I'm SEMI-/QUASI-/PARTIALLY-"SUPERSTITIOUS".

… Well, I usually START with/by doing some "traditionally-SUCCESSFUL" technique.
Then, if SAID-"tactic" does NOT IMMEDIATELY "bring RELIEF/SATISFACTION", I realize how SILLY/UN-justified/STUPID the concept IS.  
So, I "chalk it up" as MY MIS-understnding of "properties" & their RESPECTIVE "weight-of-INFLUENCE".

… E.g. (WARNING) When I "sit ABOVE my toilet", I MAY--SUB-conciously--swallow my EXCESS-saliva.  Realizing the COMMON-description of lavatory-"FALSE-alarms" as "SWALLOWING-it", 
(… Literally?  EEEWWW!)
I, next, RE-concentrate my EFFORTS on my "RECTAL-thrusts".  
"'RECTUM'?!  Damn-near KILLED him!"
Said my Caregiver--about himself.

… When I watch SPORTS, I'll "make a 'MENTAL-note' of WHAT I am/was doing, when my-team made a GREAT-play.  I'll REPEAT that TACTIC/PROCEDURE.  When the 
(GOOD-) result DIFFERS, I'll SIGH … & TRY-something NEW.  (… EVEN when I'm JUST a SPECTATOR, I STILL wanna "FEEL … like I'm PARTICIPATING".)  

… When-EVER I DO anything-PRODUCTIVE, I "make a MENTAL-note" of WHAT I did & HOW I did it … for FUTURE-reps.
When this REPETITION is … INEVITABLY … IN-consistent, I THINK-about it & REALIZE that … I caN'T "BEAT Statistics".
(… "MATH" is just TOO-"STRONG"!  … "DEFEAT"--for ME--is INEVITABLE.)

… Since I START-off BELIEVING-/TRUSTING-in MY "ODDITIES" before "DISMISSING 'em", THAT would make me HEMI-"superstitious".
(… SPECIFICALLY, I'm the FIRST-half.  … Ergo, I'm NOT "stitious", … just "SUPER".)


-- (AUDIBLE-sigh) DAMN Syrians for "ATTACKING" tourists in Istanbul(, TURKEY)!


-- After yet-ANOTHER ENCOURAGING workout, my "UPPER body"-trainer emailed me a VERY-INTERESTING & INTELLECTUALLY-"ENLIGHTENING"/-"STIMULATING" article about nerve-RE-generation!  
(--"The Peripheral Nervous System Can OFTEN Heal ITSELF  from Injuries", By RICHARD A. A. DAY - Rocky Mountain Neurosurgery Center)
(… Granted, MUCH of the RECOVERY-process is PHYSICAL, a PORTION is DEFINITELY MENTAL!)

… 'Por ejemoplo':  I NEED "POSITIVE-encouragement" via "VERBAL-feedback", … in order to MAINTAIN my "OPTIMISTIC-outlook" on/toward MY RECOVERY/REHABILITATION!



-- I watched a BUNCH of Jason Statham-movies--'cuz he's "BAD-ASS".  
(… 'Snatch', 'The Transporter', 'Safe', 'Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels')
(… I "see" some SIMILARITIES b/w the RUGGED, FOREIGN MARTIAL-ARTIST & PRE-accident A.J.)


-- To AVOID the REVERSAL of THIS line from 'The Shining', I'll design ANOTHER TWO "Karate--Wrestling--Jujitsu"-technique(S) to CO-teach to the KIDS … BEFORE Thursday.
"ALL-PLAY & NO-WORK make (A.J.) a DULL-(man)."


 
MORAL 
Make your-OWN "luck".


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