I didn't realize that something can actually egg on for a long time and fixates in someone's mind that one start thinking it is actually an intrinsic part. If you define it an obsession or fixation then I shall call it a kinda austerity.
Someone tells you that something is great and you may ignore it. Someone else tells you the same and you give a damn to it. Yet another person tells you it is actually great and now you plant a thought about it. That eggs on to you slowly and it strengthens by time and space as it grows in your mind. Then the pondering transcends to a level of action, just like a seed grows into a sprouting consuming enough of water to accomplish the process.
The action proceeds despite there are several obstacles. But, the real within and some wise-heads are there to beacon you to discern the nuggets among the fake ones. Action continues to a state of passing the responsibility to someone else who might be interested in deciding your fate. Apparently, it shows how good or bad you have carried out the job is too trivial since you aren't to decide your fate.
Subtle things aren't obvious as per the definition. You would see that you have already made a judgment of your fate but you would like to hear that from someone else. The actual test was already over while you were struggling with the action. The test became part of the action that you actually overlooked it in the process. The test was just about what to overlook and what not to. Now, this phenomenon is known as austerity. You are too fixated to the action of the event and you even forgot the goal in the process. You have denied the things that are to be denied, hence you were successful in the penance.
