Do good obsessions exits or there simply Obesssions ?

1 Oct 2013

Epicurean Philosophy tells us that we should simply strive to eliminate desire and live our lives in an ongoing state.
The things that draw a big amount of our attention tends to be obsessive, like some article we read and you either love it or hate it but you want everyone to know what you think to the subject and stand out our opinion in the matter, when you try too hard for someone to like you, when YOU are right and the other person is wrong and you will do anything to prove that, other good example is to think about losing a “lucky stone,” which you’ve kept in our pocket for the last three years. You haven’t really lost your luck. You’ve just lost a pebble from the beach. But if you cling to the idea that the stone was lucky, you might feel really terrible that you lost it.
When do those things start to affect our lives and become something unhealthy? My opinion is when we lose control over it, or we simple say we have a good obsession over something and it became bigger and bigger, so do all good obsession lead to becoming bad?

21 Aug 2019

I believe people do something for one of two reasons and two reasons only. To get something they desire for themselves or to avoid something they wish to avoid. Even if your action is on the behalf of someone else, those two reasons apply because your choice makes you feel good. That said, I would say that obsessions are just an extension of maximizing what is pleasant to us or minimizing what is unpleasant. Either type of obsession can be unhealthy if our life revolves around our obsession.

Meagan

5 Sep 2019

I think desire and obsessions are two different things. Ask any person with OCD. I compulsively wash my hands 20 times a day. Not out of desire, but because of my OCD. Obsessions can be helpful, harmless, or harmful. But quite frequently they are just annoying.

5 Sep 2019

Yes at least one exists. Survival.

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