Developers and Obsession

One thing I've noticed about all developers, free software developers in particular, is that they tend to become obsessed with things far beyond a point that any ordinary person would take a given obsession. When this is a nessary free software project that needs to be worked on, that can be a good thing. However, it can be a very bad thing when this is applied to other areas of life so that the software project is never even started, much less reaching a stable working condition. I wanted to check up on one of our developers, because she had not contributed to anything in the project for years, yet always gave these indications that she was still intrested in working on it. Yet, when I find her, I find that working on the project is all but impossible, because she has a new obsession. Making everything immaculatly clean all the time. When ever she sits down, she sees a speck of dust. She changes her outfit several times a day, and consiquently has an awful lot of laundry. Dishes must be done immedicatly after eating. You can not even finish a nice cup of tea, because first there will be some speak of dirt somewhere that must be cleaned immediatly, and then the tea cup, still hot and half full that you are not finished with, must be tossed out and thrown in the dishwasher. It would be one thing if she just took certain times out of the day to do some cleaning, but to make a never ending constant thing that seems to know no bounds means that there is no time left to do any sort work on the project. I find more and more that people prone to obession always find stupid things to obesss about for hours on end to the detriment of anything that is good and productive and fun in this world. Having a few obsessive obsess on something so pointless like that is