Hurt comes when you are not sure of yourself. You are saying you are all right with your habits, but not all right with people criticizing you. You feel hurt. If you feel hurt, that clearly tells you that you do not know what you do and why you do it. If you know that making the bed, for example, is the best thing you can do with your time in the morning, then why would you pay attention to someone objecting to it?
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Questioner: I’ll start by introducing myself. I’m a second-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In my daily life, my habits, I think, have morphed into compulsion over time, and it disturbs me when people don’t do the same as I do. For example, I have a habit of making my bed the first thing in the morning, the moment I wake up. Now, generally, it is regarded as a very good habit, but the problem arises when people don’t do the same, and it starts disturbing me. This, I feel like, shouldn’t happen because I cannot control the people around me. So, how do you suggest I work on this?
Acharya Prashant: Work on what? Please clarify.
Questioner: Work on handling compulsions like these.
Acharya Prashant:: No, but why do you want to work on them? What problem do you face?
