Old bad habits die hard.
I just cannot stop teasing/stroking my ear lobes with my fingers, especially the left ear lobe. This annoying habit of mine was cultivated way back when I was still a little girl.
I do it almost everyday – whether conscious or sub-consciously. I touched my ear lobes while driving, when I am thinking hard, while watching tv, reading a book, or having nothing to do, etc. And the strokes would go more intense if I am worried sick. Heck, I even touch my ear lobes while typing this.
It got really embarrassing when someone noticed. While I was back in school, I would be doing it while in the lab. My classmates who sat behind me, would laugh and tried to imitate me; asking me what was the fun of doing so. This action was even caught on a video when I went for a survival camp stint back in college. There I was; fiddling my ear lobes intensely, while watching anxiously at the others clinging onto their dear lives, trying out the flying fox.
There isn’t any explanation as I don’t understand this myself. But it felt somewhat good.
My fei chai trip comrades also noticed this bad habit. At first, they thought I was perpetually on the phone, but didn’t see me talking.
When I was little, it was worse as I would tease ear lobes of others - my sister and my brother, or anyone near me in fact, before falling asleep. This bad habit had annoyed the shit out of them that they asked me to tease my own ear lobes. From that day onwards, I had to stroke myself – the ear lobe that is.
WY thinks I am just being flirtatious for doing so. In body language context, the act of touching of any parts of the face or hair while talking to the opposite sex is considered as flirting. I hope I didn’t send any unnecessary signals to anyone.
I just cannot stop teasing/stroking my ear lobes with my fingers, especially the left ear lobe. This annoying habit of mine was cultivated way back when I was still a little girl.
I do it almost everyday – whether conscious or sub-consciously. I touched my ear lobes while driving, when I am thinking hard, while watching tv, reading a book, or having nothing to do, etc. And the strokes would go more intense if I am worried sick. Heck, I even touch my ear lobes while typing this.
It got really embarrassing when someone noticed. While I was back in school, I would be doing it while in the lab. My classmates who sat behind me, would laugh and tried to imitate me; asking me what was the fun of doing so. This action was even caught on a video when I went for a survival camp stint back in college. There I was; fiddling my ear lobes intensely, while watching anxiously at the others clinging onto their dear lives, trying out the flying fox.
There isn’t any explanation as I don’t understand this myself. But it felt somewhat good.
My fei chai trip comrades also noticed this bad habit. At first, they thought I was perpetually on the phone, but didn’t see me talking.
When I was little, it was worse as I would tease ear lobes of others - my sister and my brother, or anyone near me in fact, before falling asleep. This bad habit had annoyed the shit out of them that they asked me to tease my own ear lobes. From that day onwards, I had to stroke myself – the ear lobe that is.
WY thinks I am just being flirtatious for doing so. In body language context, the act of touching of any parts of the face or hair while talking to the opposite sex is considered as flirting. I hope I didn’t send any unnecessary signals to anyone.
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