One Time 4 Your Mind

One time 4 your mind, one time/ Yeah whatever/ One time 4 your mind, one time/ It sound clever

Track 8: One Time 4 Your Mind

I'm stuck on coming up with a post with the title One Time 4 Your Mind. The only thing I could think to do was write a rap to it, but since I've already subjected you to my nostalgic attempts to flow, I'll pass. Instead I'm just gonna break the title down to its parts and focus on one aspect of it. Let's talk about the mind. As in my mind plays tricks on me. I know that's a different rapper, but like I said I was stuck. I started thinking about my mind and some of the weird and quirky stuff it causes me to do. By the way, I know I am stretching to stay within the concept that I laid out for myself. Anyway, my mind is strange place. I'm sure most people have weird thoughts and weird things they do. Here are 10 strange things my mind makes me do.

Tucking in my shirt: I absolutely cannot look in the mirror while I'm tucking in my shirt. I will take my glasses off or close my eyes until I am finished. Then once the shirt feels like its tucked in properly, I will look and make adjustments. I don't know what that's about, but my mind really doesn't want to see the tucking in process.

Finishing Lyrics: If I get a random lyric stuck in my head, my mind wont let me function unless I figure out where it came from. Often that involves running through an entire verse until I determine the source of said lyric. Then once I identify it, I have to say the rest of the song. Most of the time, its in my head, but occasionally I will do this out loud leading people to question my sanity.

Germs: I alternate between being a germophobe and being nasty. I've been known not to wash dishes until a science fair project starts growing on them, but at the same time complain if someone comes around me with a cold. It's like my mind says its okay wallow in my own filth, because they are my own germs, but bring someone else around me and I will apply the Purrell like its lotion and I'm Ashy Larry from Chappelle's Show.

Touch: I really don't like to be touched. My mind makes me immediately and involuntarily recoil when someone touches me in an unsolicited manner. This doesn't go for people I want to touch me, but I'm really not a touchy feely person. All them high 5's and hugs? You can keep that. There's this girl at the job that always touches my back when she walks by me. One day, I'm just gonna accidentally slap the shit outta her and claim it was my reflexes. LOL. I'm exaggerating, but I have told her to stop touching me, but she thinks I'm just trying to be a jerk.

Christopher Williams: I talk to myself. No need to elaborate on that one, go ahead and call me crazy.

Obscure References: See above. My mind really enjoys making obscure references that most people wont understand. I think that's why I like Family Guy so much because they will just come out of the blue with some reference that makes no sense at all, but I'm sitting there like, I remember that shit. Today's obscure reference (other than the Christopher Williams one) was when I told someone that I was serious like Jermaine Jackson. Now that I read it, it sounds corny, but at the time it was funny to me, even though they had no idea what I was talking about.

Third Person: My mind likes for Rashan to talk about Rashan in third person. For instance, Rashan will say "Rashan is a fucking genius!" which is an actual quote Rashan used at Rashan's job today.

Sleep Disorder: You already know this one. I can't sleep like a normal person. My circadian rhythms are all fucked up. I think it started back when I was a teenager and this happened. Ever since then I have had a problem sleeping. I think I was just afraid to go back to sleep and somehow trained myself to stay up all the time. The weird thing is that I can sleep all day, but not at night. It has to be a mental issue.

Alone: My mind won't allow me to be lonely. No matter how alone I am, my mind always provides me with a distraction so I don't long for other people's company. This one gets me in trouble because I'll forget to call people back because I'm just sitting there enjoying myself. Wait, that sounded like I was talking about mas.. What I meant was that I enjoy my conversations with myself.

Curiosity: "My mind wont allow me to not be curious" (Cee Lo - Cell Therapy). I am nosey as hell, especially if I'm not supposed to know. If you try to hide something from me, I'm gonna look that much harder until I inevitably lose interest. It's not that I even really care, its just in my mind, I think I should know everything. How dare you try to hide something from me? I use my Magnum PI skills to find out stuff that I shouldn't really know, but can't not know, ya know?

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