riverotter wrote:
Child prodigies- I used to have a fascination with a certain one, Adragon DeMello- almost an obsession.
I once heard a phrase (it's a bumper sticker-type cliche, I know) "How much rent is she paying you to live inside your head?" but it really put a different spin on things for me.
Maybe if you set aside a certain time to think about her, and set an alarm, to limit the time. You could have your certain "obsession time" to think about ONLY HER as a reward for spending a predetermined amount of time on a different interest. A similar system works for me.
BTW I've had my share of unrequited obsessions about different boys, and only time could take it away.
As for the music are you talking about the kind of thing like (from 1992 I think) the techno version of "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana? You sound like a well-rounded, interesting person.
River Otter, I have somewhat the same system, I hook up with a 12 step group and then for an hour BEFORE the group meets, I give myself the obsession time and really let it whail! then I jump into the shower and go to the hobby meet up, I mean the 12 step meeting and get all stiched up then go home and go to bed and sleep the sleep of the innocent.
and all day I tell myself, "not yet, not yet, we can obsess later, but not yet."
Merle
who has had THREE husbands and lots of "relationships" and have obsessed about every single one!