Obsession

OCD
Repetition-Compulsion
Addiction
Trouble letting go
all of these have a common component
an unreadiness to move on
Just as Depression has the need to turn us inward when we have not given the soul the food it desires
the R-C is repeating a pattern that cannot be changed until the lesson is learned
why are we destined to repeat old mistakes? our soul wants to grow, it wants to evolve
the spirit wants to fly higher
it cannot if it is trapped in old ways of relating and being
the pain of recognition that you've stepped in that same old hole!
'til you avoid it or learn to walk down a different street altogether
learn to love yourself enough to do this
we don't have to stay mired in the same muck time and time again
we are meant to grow
to grow-outward
so go inward when you need
fend off would-be "do-gooders" with vested-interests and wounds all their own
let them work out their own "stuff" whilst you sift through yours
maybe you'll meet on the new road somewhere up the lane!