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In the strip “we have always done it this way” I wrote about how hard it can sometimes be to see that you need to change, perhaps defending yourself with old routines and customs. But it can be just as hard for someone who already realises that a change is needed. It takes strength and will to change yourself and your ingrained patterns; it is the old ghosts of habit that come and control you, and you let them. Which habit are you working on right now? I am trying to get better at giving positive feedback; I want it to come automatically, as part of my conversation with a person.

Comic, panel 1. Two executioners in black hoods at a table with a candle. One: “Why don’t we try it on one?” The other: “Yeah, yeah, let’s try.”

Panel 2. A prisoner lies strapped to a rack. An executioner: “Welcome to the torture chamber. Before we start today I want to let you know that we will do things a little differently.” The prisoner: “Everything is new to me, but you know best. I guess.”

Panel 3. The executioner: “We will start by asking some questions we want answers to.” A voice cries: “What!?” A white glow appears in a small panel.

Panel 4. Caption: “Meet Mlalok, a torture master of times past.” A ghost: “What is this? Questions first!”

Panel 5. The ghost cries: “Noooo!” The executioner by the rack: “Ahem.... this feels a bit strange, but here comes the question.”

Panel 6. The ghost enters the executioner, whose eyes turn into crosses. The executioner turns the wheel of the rack.

Panel 7. Caption: “Ten minutes later.” The executioners carry away the dead prisoner. One: “What happened? Didn’t you want to ask first?” The other, with crosses for eyes: “Don’t know, it just felt wrong somehow.”