Obsessions and will power

Imagine you have in front of you a tray full of goodies. Looks pretty tempting, doesn't it? But what if I told you that each one of these delicious little cookies has almost a thousand calories - would it make you want one anyless? Me neither, and that's normal.

We all wants things that we know are bad for us. Everyone has dangerous fascinations and unhealthy fixations. Some of them are a little harder to explain than others, but most of us know how to keep our impulses in check. We use will power to fight our darker instincts.

Unfortunatelly, for others, will power just isn't enough. The siren call of one's own obsessions is simply too strong to resists.

The thing we used to want, becomes the thing we now need - our obsession becomes our compulsion, until eventually we realize pursuing the one thing we want most in life has left us without much of a life at all.

But in the end, our compulsions are still there, even after they've pushed us to the brink of death, or guided us into places of unimaginable horror.