You arrive home, and to your dismay you see a circle of all of your friends around your living room, with one empty chair. It’s an intervention! And you instantly know why they’re there.
What problem are you in denial of? Doesn’t have to be something serious. For example, do you keep saying you’re going to clean your bathroom but you never actually do it? Have you been working on a poem for 2 years and still not finished it?
Hides bags of needlework supplies behind back, offers to run into the kitchen and make coffee so I can go out the back door and barricade myself in my stash filled shed.
I work so that I can own my home to peaceably be able to stay and enjoy in how I see fit. These people coming into my home surrounding me and pointing fingers at me may find out why I have a conceal carry permit and a Glock with a 16 round clip nearby and at the ready. Wouldn’t shoot anybody, its so I can point them to the door.
I’ll clean up the cat hair when I get around to it. If you didn’t come over uninvited to wag your fingers at me I would have taken the time to clean!
I’m sure they would be there to cure me of my “fishing addiction”, a term that has been used about me before. But I really only go three or four times a week, usually for only an hour or two. I wonder what they would think of the guys I see fishing who sometimes ask if I’ve been sick since I wasn’t there for a day or two.
Of course, within weeks my SO would gather the group again for an intervention to get me out of the house more.
I mean, if I’m in denial about it, how could I report it here?
But in the spirit of the thread, probably my internet use. It’s excessive and interferes with my life in meaningful ways. I went to a therapist about it but he didn’t seem to take it seriously. He was like, “Well at least you’re not hacking into bank accounts.”
As long as these people are here they might as well clean up the place and stop the bitching. Grab a duster and some pledge and get to it. I’ll be at the bar, call me when you are done.
A guy I dated wanted me to give up my racing hobby for him even though it is only a few weekends a year. I asked, “In return, you’ll give up basketball for me?” Silence.
In my case, probably watching biathlon, these days. But these so-called “friends” of mine are simply jealous because they can’t appreciate how awesome a sport it is. Perhaps it is I who should be holding an intervention for them.
Procrastination. Why do something today, when I could do it at the very last minute.
Internet usage. Why do something productive when I could be reading stuff.
Eating habits. Yes, I always eat layered foods, layer by layer. For example, I nibble the outside chocolate of a Kit Kat bar, then separate out the wafers, and eat them one by one. I eat a cinnamon roll by unrolling eat. I would never just bite into one. And I’ll eat a lemon meringue pie, layer by layer. First the crust, then the filling and then the meringue. But only at home. If I am lucky enough to have lemon meringue pie at a resturant, I’ll eat it normally. And then get more to take home.
I unroll my cinnamon rolls too, and even eat carrots from the outside in (core last), but you might find me among your circle of interveners just to confirm it’s really possible to eat a Kit Kat bar that way! I never thought of it!