Obsessions (edited)

Sally was just a normal teenage girl. She hung out with friends, she posted pictures on social media, and she bought Starbucks. She had a good life but something was always missing. She felt empty or as if there was a hole in her life. This was until she discovered the show Criminal minds. One day, she walked up to her lunch table and her friend was watching a show, “What are you watching?” Sally asked. “Criminal Minds, it is the best show in the entire world, would you like to watch with me?” Sally’s friend said as she handed her one of her Airpods. Sally accepted the airpod and was excited to see what this new show was like. As they watched the show, Sally realized something. She never thought of what she was going to do with her life, until she learned about criminal investigation and profiling. She knew that was her passion, being in the FBI. At the time, she was a sophomore in high school, she was taking pointless classes that would get her the credits she needed. Her next two years, she would take forensics, criminal investigation, and any other class that would help her further her knowledge about the FBI. That’s all she dreamed of from that moment on. Once she learned how everything worked, she spent all of her time profiling and analyzing her family and friends. At first, her friends were all pretty impressed with her and how accurate her analyzing was. But after a while, it got to the point where Sally started to dig up secrets of her friends and family that weren’t supposed to be talked about. She was figuring out her friends biggest fears and regrets and constantly asking them questions about them to further her knowledge and research. Within a month or two, no one would talk to Sally because everyone was afraid of her and what she could figure out. People felt exposed and that their privacy was invaded when they were talking to or interacting with Sally.  Sally hadn’t even realized that she had lost most of her friends because she was always so absorbed in her work. She was so invested in what she was doing that friends were the least of her priorities. She spent the rest of her high school and college career practicing and perfecting her criminology. She was always doing what she loved, but she was alone. Sometimes she wanted to share her findings with others but she would remember that she didn’t have any friends anymore because she was only focused on one thing. She started to analyze herself and profile her own behavior and she started to become depressed because she thought about all of the things she had done wrong in her life. She didn’t get to make memories and have fun, sometimes even her criminal tv shows with awful acting and a romantic plot weren’t enough to keep her happy. Eventually, she got a job where she could use her profiling skills to help others and along the way she met others just like her. Her coworkers were all just as invested in their work as she was with hers. She was happy to be able to express her passion with others who were just as invested in their work as she was. She made friends with her coworkers and started to feel happy again. She knew she couldn’t go back and fix the past, but at least she could live her life in the moment. She decided that she would not let something invade her life like this again. She was going to make sure that she didn’t go crazy over a passion and that she had her priorities straight. Over the years, she used her talents and her passion to help save lives and capture those who were dangerous and people who hurt other innocent people. She understood that what she was doing was good, but she could.t look past the fact that it had ruined her life when she was younger. Once she retired, she got back in touch with old friends and looked towards them as friends and not people that she needed to be analyzing. Her friends forgave her, and realized that she had a very strong passion, but she was still the same person with the same personality.