Obsession!

Roughly translated obsession means a persistent idea dominating a person's mind. On closer observation we can notice it sounds like recession and borders on regression. Yet even though we know what there is to it, we still obsess. From our hair cut, to our salaries, to the colour of our undergarments, we obsess about something or the other. What drives this madness, is there any method to it? Psychologically obsession can most certainly be classified as a disease, you can't seem to get out of a particular thought, it seems to control your actions, and occupies almost every inch of your head. Though the description will be oversimplifying the emotion which is so strong that it makes you weak. Obsession can take many forms. The most common type of obsession is 'obsessive love'. This is accompanied by a negative feeling and low self esteem, where you find yourself dependent on the other. The irony is that it pushes the other person away. He/She is repelled because he/she cannot understand the love, to him/her it is madness. So how does love transform to obsession. It is when we cease to separate the other person from our self, it is when we forget that the other person has a life, an idea of living which he/she has conceptualized. It is when we think that the other person has to like us because we like ourselves, when we believe that our looks, our certificates or at least our salary can win us love. Obsession blurs love, and throws it into oblivion. What is left is madness, the madness to win, the madness to control, the madness to get everything we desire. Unfortunately this is the end, a sorry end, where so much of love is wasted, where emotions get overboard and where every one looses!!