There's Nothing OCD About It

Most of my friends would say I have OCD, but I'd most definitely disagree. I can't help that I like organization, it's just who I am. Actually, in all honesty I only enjoy organizing one thing in particular, and that is my DVD collection. I have always organized my DVDs by the actors that are in each movie and as I add to my collection, the organization of my movie shelves becomes quite a puzzle. There was one cinematic addition, in particular, that threw off my entire system. The modern art masterpiece that is Martin Scorsese, The Departed changed my game of organization forever. When I first bought this movie I had no idea of the impending irritation it would cause me. It all started after my first viewing of the movie. After I took it out of the DVD player and put it in it's case, I walked it over to the shelf and realized what mess I had just gotten myself into. “Crap, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio are both in this movie”. Since my Matt Damon section of the shelf is much larger than Leo's I easily transferred the Leo section towards the Matt section of the shelf. Now the Bourne trilogy and Shutter Island were only separated by The Departed and that was okay with me. It was then that I realized…”Wait, if I moved all the Leo DiCaprio movies and Titanic is now in the Leo section by the Matt section, then I have to move Kate Winslet's, The Holiday over to the section where Titanic was”. After sitting puzzled for a moment, I had another realization. If I move Winslet's section, which has The Holiday, then I also need to move the School of Rock case because Jack Black is in both movies. Finally, after moving the Jack Black collection it seemed like everything was going to be okay…Boy was I wrong. I looked back at The Departed and realized, Mark Wahlberg AND Jack Nicholson are in the movie as well, but they have their own section of my movie shelf. I was running out of room on the shelf but something had to be done in order to keep my movies organized just as I liked them. I picked up Shooter, The Fighter, The Italian Job, and Boogie Nights and placed them on top of the Matt Damon collection so the Wahlberg section could at least touch The Departed. Then I picked up Anger Management, The Shining and A Few Good Men and placed them underneath the Matt Damon section so that Nicholson's section could also touch The Departed in someway. At this point, I had had enough. I wasn't going to move anymore until I realized what I had done. I had moved A Few Good Men, my favorite movie of all time, without taking the Kevin Bacon and Tom Cruise section with it. I moved the Tom Cruise section to one side of the movie and place the Kevin Bacon section underneath of the movie and it again seemed like everything was going to work out. Wrong…Again! The final straw was most definitely when I had to move Kevin Bacon's Mystic River. There was NO WAY I was going to be able to connect the Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins and Laurence Fishburne sections. It was a lost cause, I had to quit. Out of spite, I guess spite for my own addiction, I took every DVD off the shelf. I then placed them back in no specific order. It was torture but it had to be done. Even to this day, sometimes I lay awake at night dreaming of a DVD shelf that is organized perfectly with no imperfection, but then I realize that my dream will never come true. Sure they all say I have OCD, but that is just not the case. This is normal, there is nothing 'OCD' about it.

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