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[question] How do you all cope with tarnishing your nice watches? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Patently-Absurd@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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Finally got my first decent automatic watch and managed to smack it off a door frame and scratch it up within the first week. Now all I can see are the scratches on what used to be a perfect bracelet and bezel. Is it normal to be bothered by this or is this just mental illness.

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[–] ahtoxa1183@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Attempting to keep things 'perfect' was a huge contributor to my anxiety. Granted, I'm already prone to it, but at one point it got so bad, I would avoid driving my truck, for I was anxious about replacing heim joints every 10k miles (dusty off-roading in CO). As someone who loves to wheel and camp, this was really detrimental to me both mentally and physically.

It's a lot easier to live my life when I'm less attached to material things, for it's not them that bring happiness and contentment to me.

I still struggle with perfection, resisting change, and worrying about status quo, but a lot less these days, and I've been much happier for it. I even dinged the crystal pretty good on my daily Orient, and it didn't bother me like it used to.

[–] 6mm_sniper@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

exactly I knew I would be anxious when I bought my Jeep, first week took it to a trail I knew was narrow with low overhanging trees and forced myself to not worry about it got some desert pinstripes and never worried about it again. A Jeep without scratches is not being driven correctly!