I wonder if obseission is a psychological, complex problem? In fact, I believe it is.
It is like idolization, you fall for something or someone and make them like air and water in your life. Both are desturctive, but I think obsession is even worse. This is because idolization, sometimes, is out of true love which can be blind or selfish. But, obsession is mainly about possession, fear, and greed.
In both cases, either in idolization or obsession, you can’t see the truth, you can’t listen to reason.
Perhaps, that’s why this quote makes a very good sense: “Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.”
Do you agree that only the old, the very young, and the pure can sometimes see the truth? Do you think that might because they are no longer obsessed or have not yet become obessessed?
My Cousin Rachel by Dephne Du Maurier can tell you more about obessission. Here’s a link for my review.
/https://nh825.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/my-cousin-rachel/
With all the best wishes,
Nahla
Pure and Simple 