Peeve of the day..... suddenly being a charing ninja. Everything has to be charged all the time. I can't walk around knowing just one battery is dead. I have 7 18350s and 1 device that takes them. REALLY??? There's no way I'm going through 7 batteries in a day, so why must I insist that they're all charged all the time?
Allow me to conjecture;
There is a possibility that you share an affliction which I, and many others I encounter and/or interact with seem to suffer from in varying degrees of severity: a need to have things be "perfect", as a futile (since little or nothing is perfect) means of attempting to fill some kind of conscious and/or subconscious void in our life experience. In your particular case, it could well be that you will simply feel more complete as a human being if
all of your batteries are charged "
perfectly" so that perhaps you can feel better about yourself or your life in some way; e.g., that you are not "a loser" or "a slacker", or that your life doesn't suck as badly as it otherwise might, or that you might feel that it does, by virtue of the fact that you have a complete set of "perfectly" charged batteries for your one device that actually takes them.
In short, it might well be that you, as am I, are what I would call "a recovering perfectionist", and just might, as I firmly believe I would, benefit from acknowledging and understanding that absolutely nothing is perfect except for possibly the universe itself, and that any one particular thing, person, object, or any other single entity that is separate from the whole is going to be "imperfect" in some way (at least when viewed through the human "doors of perception" that tends to look at things as being on a continuum of "duality" - discharged/charged, good/bad, up/down, hot/cold, left/right, you/me, big/small, etc. It seems to me that things are pretty much what they are, and then we as human beings tend to attach labels to them; "liberal", "conservative", ".........", "friend", "enemy", "meanie", "nice guy", etc., whereas it might be more advantageous to simply look at the whole, attempt to understand the total and complete nature of it, and failing the ability, required time, or desire to do that, to simply look for the good in it, and just say that beyond that it simply "is what it is.")
Like my dog, for example ...... insanely cute? Yes. Sweetie-pie? Yeppers. Loyal? You betchum, Red Rider. Adorable? He wrote the book on adorable. But perfect? No way, Jose. Even though he'll bark his fool head off for 20 minutes on end if he hears a leaf strike the ground, do you think I can get him to "Speak" on command? Nope. And that's OK ... at least it better be, because it's looking more and more all the time to be the case that as otherwise smart and obedient as he is, he's never going to be "Speaker of the House".
So ... like so much in life, the sooner and more completely I can come to the realization that he is not perfect and never will be, the "happier" I will be.
My prescription:
The next time one of your batteries runs down to around 3.0 volts, as your device should allow it to .......
put it somewhere you will see it often, but is kinda out of the way, and use it as a teaching tool. Realize - (I think that things that are true can be "realized", as opposed to things that are not true) - that it does not
need to be fully charged, in the "Grand Scheme of Things" - and use it as a reminder that almost nothing (and possibly nothing at all) is "perfect", and that it might just be a fine idea to stop trying to make it so.
That'll be five cents please ... I take PayPal.
[Oh ..... and yes, just for the record I am nuts, not that that needs to be spelled out; this is really just a procedural thing ... kinda like a warning label, or that little message in your rear view mirror, which I will paraphrase here as "Some members of this forum are even wackier than they have previously appeared"]
He only gets upset when his beloved Boat gets mentioned, although her name is still a secret.
