May Be I'm Addicted....

Throughout my 20 years, I have fallen victim to several addictions (not drugs of course, and also not gambling), most of the addictions have been harmful playing crazes, a determination to see the end of the game within a week, or doing stuff that won't lead me anywhere. Here's a summarized list:

1) Crazy about Harry Potter & liking everything about the teenage wizard, an addiction in itself, I would buy every available stuff (shirts, pencils, erasers, game CDs & other HP merchandise) & I am not mentioning the books here, as I have gone through the majority of them a zillion times. At one point of time, I was so obsessed that I was prepared to go to Oxfordshire to meet Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) & also audition for a role in the forthcoming movies.

2) Then came WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), I would each show on TV twice a day, one in the evening & one at night, I was completely taken over by WWE. I would perform the "wrestling" moves on pillows, and began to go to gym & develop my muscles (a move that I don't regret now). I dreamnt of wrestling, I ate, slept, drank wrestling, it seemed the most beautiful thing on Earth & several times I told my mother: I wanna be a Wrestler, nothing else. I was so engrossed with the thing & once, when I was in class 9, a heated argument with a friend resulted me in "choke slamming" him on the study table, he didn't go unconscious, but was badly hurt & our class teacher called my mother & complained about my violent behavior. She later wrote in my slam book (on the penultimate day of class 9) that I was Muhammad Ali!

3) My peak teenage years, 15-18 were spent in indulging in various acts, of which girls played an insignificant role, well, I always wanted a girl, and still want her now. Nevertheless, smoking, which I took up in class 11, as fun, turned into an addiction, it didn't go beyond all barriers, but, I dunno for some reason, I loved smoking, as to me, it gave a sense of freedom, a feeling of maturity, I didn't smoke out of depression or sadness or tension, nothing like that, but out of fun, I know it seems insane, but that's what it was, I smoked for fun. (I managed to quit it a year back).

4) Next came, the online game Tribal Wars, a strategy game, like Age Of Empires, a strategy game that I couldn't take my eyes off. I would sit hours (usually 12-14) in front of my laptop (I was in hostel then) & chalk out plans to attack my enemies, defend myself against incoming dangers, grow my empire etc. I would advise all of you to try out the game, it's cool, but gets boring after sometime.

5) Then, comes Orkut, I started with: What the hell is this fucking thing? People keep on sending me requests in my e-mail to join it, I was a little apprehensive of making the move, but, eventually I joined the gargantuan network of friends & blessed it for reviving the falling relationships with my school buddies. Here comes the funny part, when I came back to Kolkata, I took up Orkut seriously & would be online in there 24*7, scraps, as they call them, became my obsession, I would toil day & night to increase them. When I finally deleted my account on 31st October, 2007, I had 760,010 scraps, and this isn't a lie, I was ranked #31 in India & #1 in Kolkata & West Bengal.
Well, I do have an Orkut account (which I use not-so-often) & I have another 76 Accounts which I don't log into at all (so you can well understand my craze about this thing).

6) My latest addiction is Blogging, you can find me online in Blogger, for more than 10 hours a day, checking others' blogs, writing stuff with a frequency & intensity I never knew I could achieve & have also made some very good friends, some of whom I would mention in here: The girl with a zillion namesakes, Clouds (Deya), Nothingman, Sean, Arnold & many more, with whom I can share feelings & thoughts.

-Sam.