Well, a long time ago, I was going through this concept of “The Seven Deadly Sins” and I stumbled upon quite a fascinating find. Well, a lot of people say “Evil is evil. There cannot be any degree associated with it”. It’s always a logical idea for an organized society to recognize the good and bad traits in the right manner. But yet again, there are bad traits that when applied over a limited extent and specific manner, it can highly benefit individuals a lot without hurting others in any manner.
Pride is perhaps a necessary trait in this world of successes and failures. I mean if you do not let everyone know who you are and what your accomplishments are, perhaps you might be forgotten, well that is if you have achieved something that so great you can polish that statue of yours.
Greed in a way to put is nothing but ambition. And you need ambition, a lot of ambition to live out here. A great, yet forgotten man once said, “People with ambition lead a checkered life”. If you have a problem, and you want to solve it, you need a little bit of greed to achieve that task. A poor person would be greedy because he wants to take care of his family. You love something and want to protect it? You have to be greedy.
Lust? When has it ever been a bad thing as long as you don’t break your vows with your betrothed?
Envy is one of the most dangerous feelings one can have because you never know how envious you are of a person until you’ve destroyed everything you care about till you’ve overtaken that other person. You may argue saying sometimes sibling rivalries and friendly rivalry are positive for personality development but when things go bad, they end up horrible.
You haven’t lived life if you haven’t been to the finest feast in town or you haven’t smashed your mugs with your compatriots. And gluttony isn’t bad as long as it doesn’t consume most of your time or if it causes you to look “gluttonous”. Trust me, and hit the land of iron, you will feel better.
SLOTH. This can lead to downfall of any civilization today. Everybody’s guilty of this in their life and being lazy is my biggest fear. It can mess up anything forever. If I miss my Iron temple one day, I live in eternal regret over that for another day. It can ruin your career, relationship(s), your bed and almost any goddamn thing important to you.
Slightly digressing from the current concept, I believe everyone must learn how to be cruel. You needn’t be cruel but you must know what cruelty is and you must know how to be cruel. In a way, it’s a defensive mechanism. Somebody’s mistreating you, being cruel towards to you, innocence won’t help. Cruelty helps you block out people who are cruel to you. But please don’t go around and throwing stones at dogs because I said cruelty is good. To defending yourself from negative people, you need to know negativity. Same thing with cruelty and every other negative trait.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War
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