OH wow, this is interesting. Since I was 13, I had an obsession with even numbers being well...good. Like NOT evil, in a sense. Ill tell you why, can you follow? It should be easy:

(WARNING: REFERENCE TO RELIGIOUS TONES REGARDING MY BELIEF IN CHRISTIANITY)

I used love even numbers. My favorite was 4. I used to have to do EVERYTHING 4 times. 8 was better because it was double that, so like sealing the deal with kiss, so to speak. Anything number a divisor of 4 after that was the best.

I would see it as: "Four is great because theres 4 "1"s in there and each "1" has a partner and within THAT it has ANOTHER partner pair, so they aren't lonely". I saw doing things a number of times as not the ACTUAL number but a whole bunch of independent "1"s together.

1-1
1-1 1-1
1-1 1-1 1-1 1-1

So 8 was like King of the castle, the end all be all. There was a number for each "1" there.
I could get by with 4, so like as to not draw attention, or if I was very mentally exhausted. It was like the home away from home. It was good enough to get by. 2 was inexcusable, lazy, and I was going to be punished for it or I had to punish myself for it. I would only do 2 if I was so literally exhausted or I was in the attention of many people or many loved ones at one time or the like. Obviously doing nothing was an internal death sentence.

For religious reasons, one day, It just changed, it just ALL changed. For almost 10 years of not being able to part with even numbers even feeling physically sick if I didnt do something an even number of times, I started doing things the odd way. In believe that since the devils number is 6 I was an extra evil being for following even numbers. God's number is 7.

So now I do things 7 times. No more AT ALL. Anything more is not God, and if I do it less it HAS to be 3 or 1, BECAUSE!, God is the alpha and omega. There is only one saviour and one only. Any duplicates run under the name of the antichrist and the devil himself.

So 7 now. Or 3 or 1.