Obsessive Compulsive passion

What is it that ticks off people about a person doing or saying the same thing again and again? Incidentally my obsessions appear listless. It's a small walk after a lunch. I see a Steamed Corn seller on the road. It costs me Rs.2 to indulge in my temptation. I see eunuch's ripping men in traffic for money. I can't help smiling at their audacity. One day I dont see them in traffic and I look out for them. I see women over dressed in the night waiting in places they shouldn't but I have to see them everyday to believe there exists a life that I am unaware of. I see people who are obsessively compulsisve. I need to feel contempt for their weaknesses. What is my obsession? Or is it a passion that is perversive in some ways? Why do I go round in circles to come to the same focal point again and again and again and again and.....?

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