obsession(s)

without doubt the need for poetry in our lives, mine at least and i'm sure if you're reading these words yours too, can be called an obsession. more than a hobby, certainly not a career, not a religion [tho it can manifest itself -- discipline, devotion, arrogance and humility -- as such], perhaps even a life. is obsession part of the personality trait of writers? i wonder because my own life i've a few obsessions, serial perhaps, that had made themselves manifest. movies is but one example of an obsession that shapes my living and thinking. there have been others too. i mean hard obsessions that become devotions. would it were part of the circuitry of writers' minds? i don't mean to privilege writers over other creative personality types. only writing is central to my own life.