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The thin line where passion forgets to come home for dinner.
means Completely preoccupied with someone or something, your thoughts circling back to it whether you want them to or not.
from From Latin obsidere, 'to sit down before, to besiege' — picture an army camped outside your city walls, refusing to leave. The past participle obsessus gave us the sense of being literally surrounded, hemmed in. Early English use was darker than ours: to be 'obsessed' meant to be haunted or beset by an evil spirit, a demon laying siege to the soul. Only later did the besieging force become a thought, a person, a hobby — the enemy at the gates now living rent-free in your head.
- latin root
- From obsidere, meaning to besiege or sit upon.
- brain chemistry
- Low serotonin links obsession to OCD and new love.
- creative fuel
- Most masterpieces were made by the dangerously fixated.
- original meaning
- Once meant haunted by an evil spirit.
kanye west — rapper who documented his obsession with kim kardashian publicly from 2012 onwards, including multiple albums referencing her
mark zuckerberg facebook — founder obsessed with connecting people, spending billions acquiring instagram and whatsapp to expand his social network vision
elon musk twitter — tesla ceo became obsessed with acquiring twitter in 2022, eventually buying it for $44 billion despite public resistance