Acting on Impulse
When we got home some celebrity on TV was describing how she
kept individually wrapped cookies everywhere to teach herself impulse control.
Dr. Deb saw my expression and laughed. “That’s not how you
do it?”
I said, “If I hid pills under the bed, it wouldn’t take much
of an impulse to eat them. Having to go downstairs to get them would take a
much stronger impulse.”
“If they’re locked up, and I had the key,” Dr. Deb said, “You’d
really have to want them.”
“That’s how you practice impulse control. Not by willpower,
by making it hard to act on impulse.”
“That’s why you still avoid alcohol after all these years,”
Dr. Deb said. “Maybe I should get rid of all the junk you impulsively eat.”
“Brat Boy eats most of it,” I lied. “He has no impulse
control.”
Today I will practice impulse control.
Summer with the Slug
Rats © 2020 by Ken Montrose
Summer with the Slug
Rats is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone
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