In a writing group, I asked a question about how to tap into a villain’s evil nature. One of the answers I got told me to think about dark obsessions and how they lead to evil acts. I really didn’t like this answer considering I suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder. Given that I do, I started to obsess about the answer.
Then, I realized that the person who answered the question really didn’t understand obsessions at all. The dark obsessions I have are a nightmare for me. I can’t control them. When I was younger, those obsessions led me into darkness and fear. As I have written many times in this blog, when I act out of fear, nothing good comes out of it and I feel myself farther away from my true self and God. As I have matured, I have learned that these obsessions are just OCD thoughts and I don’t need to control them. I have nothing to fear and I can give my life over to God.
The dark obsessions that were referred to in the answer aren’t really obsessions at all. Instead those ideas or objects are things which people want to control. They are the very things which, without really realizing it, people have started to give power to something above God. When someone puts a person, an idea, or a thing above God, then of course evil is going to occur because God should always be the most important thing in someone’s life and when someone starts to worship something else, whether it be power, money, drugs, or something else, then nothing good will come of it. My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
