i have an addictive personality. it doesn't take much for me to be hooked. a snack (caramel corn quakes) or drink craving (wawa's pumpkin spice cappuccino), books i can't put down (ahem, the hunger games.. and let's not even start on twilight), TV shows i must watch as if my life depended on it (glee!), a favorite song on repeat (currently, it's still the band perry's "if i die young"). i say 'addictive' because it goes beyond that of being a fan.. i literally can not get enough of these things. it's almost like they have the inability to wear out or get old or become overplayed. i'm completely and enthusiastically devoted. or at least, until the next addictive thing comes along.
over the last couple of weeks, my obsession is with a game on my cell called word mole, which came on my "new" phone when i finally traded in my defective one. the game is basically a board of jumbled letters that the player creates words out of. (forming words as a game? what could be more fun than that?) the longer the word, the more points it is worth, and it's a race against time to gain enough points to finish each stage (and the point total requirement increases as the levels go up). i had been stuck with a score in like the 1400s when my husband, who also plays, beat me. now... i'm also a competitive person, so i played and played until i hit the 1700s, then 1800s, which he caught up with, but then i broke away because i hit the 2400s. you'd think i would settle for that, but the draw here is obtaining that next high score, and it drove me crazy that i couldn't beat my own score no matter how often i came close. and although my husband was still stuck with his 1800-something-score, i'd be up for an extra hour or so playing each night or during my lunch break or car ride or basically any chance i could get. and then today, i finally did it: 3536! am i going to rest now that i've scored higher than i could ever have expected? probably not for long.
sometimes, i've realized, my fiercest competitor is myself.
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