Mary Margaret Park

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When does something that you enjoy ‘cross the line’, into obsession?
Do we qualify our interests into ‘good and bad’, in order to justify our peculiarities (or habits)?

I used to run 3 miles every morning, rain or shine, even when the wind chills were in the teens; people thought I was nuts or obsessed; (or both).

In the end, I suppose it’s all relative to how the activity (or habit) affects your life.

Some people spend hours playing video games; are they obsessed?
And what about people who keep their houses so clean that you can practically eat off of their floors?
Maybe they’re just neat freaks?

Some people want everything just so, whether it’s the way their food is prepared, the way the table is set, or which side the fork goes on.

Some of these things are pretty silly, but it just depends on how you view it.

I don’t expect everyone to be exacting, but I do expect my surgeon to be that way.

What do you think?
What’s the difference between having ‘good or bad habits’ (and being obsessed)?

In my latest short-story “She and He”, I explore obsession from a sensual palette; a Twilight Zone like telling with the subtleness of Adrian Lyne’s (“Unfaithful”) sense of eroticism.

Click below to read “She & He” and discuss your thoughts about the emotion we call, obsession.

http://www.marymargaretpark.com/pdf/mmp_she-and-he.pdf

- Mary Margaret Park (Author & Poet)
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