A Complaint

As long as I'm in a bad mood, I'd like to take this opportunity to complain about something which has been bothering me for a good while. This is going to be fun.

I don't like it when people use the word "obsessed" to talk about something they love. And no, this doesn't bother me because I actually have OCD, it bothered me long before I knew I had OCD. Because: I've always thought an obsession didn't mean something you love, but something that loves you, and clings and gnaws at your brain like a parasite and nags at you till you feel like, as someone whose name I never learned said, "stabbing yourself in the forehead with a fork." I've always thought of an obsession as something you can't control, with a sort of crazed-and-unhappy connotation to it.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I've always thought of it. Which doesn't make it right, it just gives me an excuse for thinking that way right now. Which is sort of obvious, so that's a waste of three sentences I could have used for something else.

Anyways

If you want to know what I think of obsession vs. non-obsession, watch Season 3 of Sherlock. Here's Anderson. He's thinking about Sherlock and how Sherlock could've faked his death. He can't stop thinking about Sherlock. Maybe he wants to stop thinking about Sherlock. But Sherlock's on his mind and won't get off and he has to keep thinking about Sherlock, and he can't help it and his whole brain is like Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock. Then there's John: John enjoys hanging out with Sherlock. He enjoys solving crimes with Sherlock. He enjoys watching Sherlock be rude to people and then correcting Sherlock and apologizing to said people. He is very sad when he thinks Sherlock is dead and grows a horrible mustache. But he isn't 'obsessed' with Sherlock.

Nother example is, I do not have an obsession with Middle Earth. I go to Middle Earth when I'm unhappy and it makes me happy, and then I go to Middle Earth when I'm happy and it makes me happier, but I don't have an obsession with it. So please don't tell me I'm obsessed with Middle Earth. If you have done this in the past then that's fine and I don't care, and if you do it in the future just to annoy me then that's fine too, I'm just in a bad mood right now because this planet is populated largely with idiots and people who refuse to make eye-contact with me even though I'm trying to be nice and polite which makes me grouchy and irritable.