Sunday, 6 August 2017

Is obsession the new trend?

At what point do we stop obsessing? Obsessing over clothes, shoes, bags, social media posts/pictures/captions, hair, weight, breakups, relationships (past present & future), bitchy friends, crazy boss, unfulfilling job, lonely singlehood, the bond that (pretending-to-be-happy) couples call marriage, chaotic family, unmanageable children, someone else’s affair, someone else’s divorce! The list is never ending. Do we ever stop? And if we do stop, do we feel a sense of relief? I doubt we do. In fact, the moment we stop and don’t have any complaint areas to look forward to, the human in us (be it male or female) begins to feel restless. Obsession is what we all seek (consciously or unconsciously). And if we do spot someone who isn’t obsessing along, we start disregarding them, like not obsessing over things isn’t cool or isn’t a normal behavior! I can actually call it a communicable disease. I have experienced the times when I don’t obsess about things or people in my life but, because I see/hear people complaint about anything & everything, a part of my brain has started to believe that in order to feel alive, I must crib about something. So much so, that the moment I begin to feel OK about everything in my life, I start becoming my own critic and begin to obsess over not obsessing. Like, am I really normal? Sometimes I really wonder about the space we create within and the space we manifest around. If you pay close attention to things & people, you would know what I am talking about! All we obsess about is either things not being OK in our life or things not being OK in someone else’s life and worst, the obsession turns neurotic if Facebook feed tells us about things being perfectly OK in someone else’s life (read Ex’s) life.
Is being obsessed a new “in” thing? Like a stamp we get when we walk in a club? If yes, perhaps we already have our hands full and surprisingly, we find pride in flaunting the marks around. The more the better types! 
What are you obsessing about these days? And if you aren’t obsessing, I am happy to know that there’s someone out there who is changing this trend!:)  

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