The things you own end up owning you
-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
In Stranger Than Fiction, Chuck Palahniuk gives readers insight to the secret lives of individuals. The fascinating part would be that their hobbies become the main focus of their lives. They would rather do nothing else but this particular thing that makes them happy. Is it ever taken overboard? When is enough truly enough? Have you ever been obsessed with something that you don’t ever want to let it go? John Irving once said, “You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed”. But is it possible to take the love for something too far?
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In my story Our America they dont really talk about any obsession with anything. The person that mostly talks about some obsession he has is llods father chill. chill is obsessed with alchohol thats just one thing he just cant live without. He is so obsessed with drinking that he just wont stop he keeps goin and goin for more. he does take it over board its just to much that he drinks daily. Have i ever been obsessed with something i think we all are obssed with something at some point. in my situation i was obsessed with buying lottery tickets. This obsession i was able to get over it i had to it was realy wasting my money. I was very obsessed with buying lottery tickets i would not win anything and i would go back and buy more like 10 tickets a day it was just crazy. i GOT TO THE POINT WHERE I JUST Had to stop my money was just being wasted for prices like $2 it was not worth it. when i got over that obsession i started gambling i just liked winning money and then lost money alsoit was fun to the point where i had debts with some people so i had to stop and i did i do gambel sometimes it still sticks with me but not as much as i used to. yes i agree with John Irving it is possible to take the love for something to far to the point where you just cant stop and need help.
We all have had relationships where we may have uttered those faithful word" I think I found the one..." Not to be a pesimist, but from my own personal experience these feeling have never lasted to long. Eventually, We have our falling out and the connection is lost forever. It is healthy for those having a relationship for those within to spend ime time together, But to much time can be detrimental. One person become more obsessed with the other. Constantly keeping tabs, wearing and tearing the fragments of this relationship to the point of exhaustion. This is usually when a innocent relationship hits the bricks, and someone is left heartbroken having been so dependent on those who were involved. This when a obsession goes to to far.
It’s a common thing to say your obsessed with music, I’m sure I’m not the only one responding to this question with music in mind. But I truly am. You know you’re obsessed with something if you truly believe you couldn’t live without. I would probably die without music. I love listening to it, playing it, talking about it, and seeing it. The only way I can see it going to far is if It got in the way of my other goals, let me elaborate. I would love to be a musician I would trade anything for that option, but I know it’s not the easiest thing to do. If I dropped everything to become, or at least try, to become a musician that would be going too far. That’s what scares me, when I play music that’s all I want to do. That’s the power of music; in a matter of minutes it can make you want to throw away a goal you’ve had for years. Who knows? I know I’m obsessed with music. Oh yeahhh.
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Obsession is something that I secretly have that I would never want to admit to anyone lol. It could range from food, to a TV show, from a piece of clothing, to my car. I never truly stick 2 one thing in particular. But when I see something and I like it….WATCH OUT!!!! Because I’m going to do whatever I have to do to get it, use it, and then throw it away. One thing I’m not obsessed about is people. I can have a strong liking for someone but once you step the wrong way……BYE BYE!!!!!!....I know that it’s wrong for me to treat people that way; but it’s my way or the highway……If they disagree……I hope they like walking because that is what they will most DEFINITELY will be doing. I have a low tolerance for BS….especially when you know how the game was suppose to be played before you even came onto the field. But when I’m passionate for something, I’ll give it my all. That’s why I try to have things always be up to part. Innovative and fresh ideas keep me intrigued. No same o same for me!!!!! I want the best…..and I know I can get it!
With my obsession as some would say with Leo Burnett is sickening on how bad I want to work there. I would do anything to work there. And the sad thing is when I say anything I really do mean it. I admire people who are creative and think outside the box from the normal and go after what they really believe aside from what other people tell them. They don’t let the criticism get the best of them. But when is enough, enough. Some would say after I snuck into a Leo Burnett leadership meeting at The Hyatt last year just to hear recruiters and account executives talk about the next semester and what they would like to see improved upon in their marketing division was the final point. “You need help Michelle, therapy was suggested.” I don’t plan on mentioning I did that stint during an interview with Burnett anytime soon. With that said there would be times when I get off work late around 12 or 1 and walk down to catch the 22 bus on Wacker and Dearborn right in front of the Leo Burnett office. I can see office lights on in the top floors and think wow if I keep driving hard like this for the next 12 years non stop that could be me slaving away at midnight. The sad thing is that I wouldn’t mind it. For once in my life money wouldn’t matter if I was working at Burnett. But then again what is enough, when your chasing after your dreams?
yes I have been obsessed with something in my life the thing I was obsessed with was my love of animal books an space books back then I could of told ever thing about any animal to birds, bears, sharks, snakes and big cats. I knew what they ate sleep or if they did sleep. Live hunt and mar great to. in the space book I can tell you what the look like the size of them and the way they orbit the sun how the plant form doing the first few minutes of the solar system if the sun is getting bigger and what is the closes meter to the earth and if it’s going to crash to us. if the milky way is on a collusion course with another galaxy which we are. how do blackholes work what inside of them. thing there are another universe some where to me it is. I could tell you if there was allies or live somewhere other than earth
I am start off by saying if you love something then nothing is ever too much. Really if you think about it you can never really go overboard doing something you love or enjoy doing. I am obsessed with better myself… I enjoy watching the improvement. I truly hope this doesn’t sound conceited or nothing, but I want to be the best at everything I do and I want to try to do everything. Now as crazy and farfetched as that sounds, I know my limits. It’s not like a little Shorty saying she want to be a princess when she grows up… it’s like Jenelle Aka Lady G knowing what she wants in life is and is going to get it. By the grace of god of course. But I love bettering myself, I find things and I correct it. I swear a lot… I don’t think it’s an attractive quality for me to have for two reasons…it sound very uneducated and two my grandma told me Ladys never swear it just aint lady like. So I cut my cursing down to just the word shit and sooommmee times fuck lol but I know everyone heard me cuss hella…. When I do shit holla at me cuz I am trying to stop and sometimes, it became such a bad habit I don’t recognize it. But back to the question being obsessed with something aint to bad unless u talking crazy like obsessing over other people and stuff cuz that shit just aint right.
Me personally, I don’t obsess over too many things. I think we obsess because we don’t want it to go away. Things that I have obsessed over was money, love, girls, music (still is), etc. I still obsess over music because, I love music. It’s not a day I go without listening to music, singing or rapping some kind of music. I don’t and will not let music go. If I don’t become a successful music producer, I will still be able to show my musically talent. I could be a drummer for a band. I could go to tour with the band and still be doing things in music. That obsession will never leave me or go away. But obsession is different from it being a GOD. But obsession can become a GOD.
King Phillip
I'm not sure if I should talk about my hobbies or my possessions. One of my hobbies is playing grand theft auto IV, which is also a possession. I play until four in the morning sometimes without realizing how much time has gone by. I take it overboard if I decide to play before I leave for school because I don't need to. I just want to play real bad. I just want a few cop chases and I'm good for the day. Some people would consider that going overboard. It's enough when grand theft auto starts taking up time with friends, and it does. Sometimes, I would rather just play grand theft auto up in my room with the lights off, when I could be outside playing basketball with my friends instead. I'm obsessed with many things that I don't want to let them go. Sometimes I have to brush my teeth twice, otherwise I start the day off bad.
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