Obsession has always been a recurrent theme in my
life. Doesn't this hold true for everyone? It is only natural that
when you find something that you really like, whether that's a
series, a band or a person, you start obsessing over it. You start
watching a series and once you are caught up, you start looking for
more information about it: theories, commentaries, extras, all of it.
You hear a song that speaks to you and you start listening to it on
repeat, over and over again. You meet someone you are attracted to
and you start engaging in the whole drama, will he text me, will he
want to see me, will he like me back? And you talk about all that to
your friends until their ears bleed.
The good thing about obsessions is that eventually,
you grow out of them. You get sick of the song, you become bored of
the bar that you've frequented for the past five Saturdays, you find
a new series to watch. But does the same hold true for people? Do we
at some point get bored of our crushes? Do we go like “ah, fuck it,
nobody has the time to wait over the phone” or do we stalk the shit
out of the person till we find someone new to torment us? And what if
the world consists of an endless chain of people not being attracted
to each other but each one to someone else? The way I imagine it, is
you fancying someone who fancies someone else, who in turn fancies
someone else and so on, a never-ending chain of unrequited love. Isn't
that a disturbing image.
