blog #last

one issue that was brought up in one of the books we read was obsessiveness. this issue was raised in the tell tale heart. the narrator was so obsessive about the old man's eye that he ended up killing him. now, most obsessions today aren't that extreme, but there are some pretty un healthy obsessions out there. such as video games. which i admit to probably having an obsession with, but i prefer to call it an excessive hobby. of course i won't end up killing someone over video games (at least i hope not), but this obsession won't really help me later in life, and will probably end up having detrimental effects on me in the long run. so why do i keep playing them? because it's something i enjoy to do, and therefore look past all the bad stuff about them. however, there are multiple types of obsessions. for example, my obsession is just an excessive hobby, where as the narrator's in the tell tale heart is something more. and more dangerous, because he end's up killing because of it. his obsession is sort of like ocd, where he couldn't help but act that way. the eye consumed all his thoughts and he had to do something about it. and that something just happened to be murder. this is an extreme case of ocd though, and other cases (like how sean burns needs everything to be even) won't end in murder... hopefully