Fixations
The longer I live, the longer I realize that we humans are crazy about certain fixations.
We know about what fixations are looked down upon. It’s not acceptable for someone to be so fixated on playing a video game like World of Warcraft to the point that they ignore their family, for instance.
And yet paradoxically we praise people who succeed at business at the expense of their personal lives. Because they are workaholics, they earn a lot of money, and that counts as brownie points in this corrupt world.
Then there are those who fixate on drinking and getting drunk after work. Some of my friends have become this way. It’s something to fixate on to distract them from the realities of everyday life.
A lot of people watch television. They work all day, then watch hours and hours of television, entertaining themselves to death. If not that, they spend countless hours in front of a computer screen simply jumping from one link to another, with no goal or meaningful purpose.
These are some of the many fixations society provides us. What will yours be?