[kop-ee]

Copy:

-noun
1.
an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.

I opened my dishwasher today. I didn't like what I saw.
A brief moment of agitation dulled my expressions as i look at the dishes in dismay, what was wrong? why were my dishes in a different order than what i usually put them in. as I stood looking like a confused gorilla i went through a mental list of who the culprit(s) could be.

The Roommate?

She is new to this abode. perhaps she did not take heed of the way I put the dishes in. or is the way I do them a bother to her?
Questions begging to be asked, but with no place or point to ask them in I moved on.

The Friend?

Having a guest over may be the cause.
but the Immediate evidence didn't support this theory. The food we ate was more snack based and required zero plates.

Who then?

The Family?

Yes! it had to be.
A mother who regularly cleans out of necessity in her own home was most likely compelled out of repetitive instinct to do such a thing. it would be safe to assume that she would clean in a matching fashion as to her own home.

Solving the mini mystery of the "re-arranged wishy-washy" I stood with a small smirk on my face and the thought "oh mom" in my head. This lasted just a moment, because the next I was putting all the dishes back the way I saw fit for them to be.

This brought on the thought. "How much do we copy sub-consciously?"
My parental unit was doing simply what was a copy of her own domicile's dishwasher. Something that worked very well there and has been, most likely, that way for many years.
It was a step on my toe's though, in the sense that I have my way of filling the the washing beast.

Call it Routine call it a method call it O.C.D. I copy what I do in all kinds of ways, loading the dishwasher is only one of them. I shower the same way, cook the same way, clean the same way, pleasure myself the same way, walk home the same way, eat,sleep and drink the same way everyday. A creature of habit, forced to copy myself and what I have seen others do and show me it's tiring.

So what happens when your Ctrl V is removed for a moment. you have to rethink your strategy. when your battle tactic is the same every time It will be figured out. there is only so many times an attack from the sky can be done before anti-air gun's are put into use. It forces you to observe your circumstances in a new light, resulting in a shiny new idea and outlook.

A change of pace No matter how big, such as a personality overhaul, or small, like re-arranging some dishes, opens your mind to new directions. Like instead of waiting in line for that new pair of pants, that cost two hundred dollars. Order a box of the sell them for one hundred and fifty dollars, keep a pair and make a profit off of it so you can get a shirt to match.

look at both sides of the coin don't copy and paste your way through life.

Now get outta here
I'm going to move some dishes.