I know addictions aren't healthy. In school we have learned about drug/alcohol addictions since we were pretty young. The media is chock-full of stories about celebrities addicted with booze and marijuana and a number of other drugs that would take forever to list. There's also stories about people obsessed with plastic surgeries; it seems these tabloids enjoy embarrassing them over bad procedures (but that's a whole other post). There's people obsessed with sex and porn and hookers (that is also a whole different post). Lastly, there's TV shows about people obsessed with coupons, and amassing
What I don't know, however, is if dealing with an addiction like mine is really at all necessary. I mean loving those things (Harry Potter and Bones and Taylor Swift and She & Him) is pretty harmless, right? I'm not harming anybody. All I'm doing is annoying them to no end, and keeping myself amused. I could find other ways to do that such as sports or going to extra help for Algebra but we all know that is just about as likely to happen as my marrying Daniel Radcliffe. Mainly because I am so so so against sports and the huge hold they seem to have over society, and secondly because Algebra is just about the most boring thing in the world.
Yay! I have just promised you two posts about me ranting!!
Ahah, my mom is sorta-getting-there-pretty-much obsessed with coupons... She won't buy us anything extra (like orange juice) without it being on sale AND having a coupon (or two). D: And it DOES hurt people because goddammit I want my OJ. DX But besides that, these sorts of obsessions (books, music, people) don't harm anyone really (unless you spend hours on end on sites like fanfiction.net like me). No, really, no harm.
ReplyDeleteHa! Same here. My mom sometimes deprives me of Bones, and says she is teaching me "life lessons" and that obsessing over things is bad. So what mom. So what.
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