Lust
If great men didn't fall at the feet of beauties like Cleopatra and
Marilyn Monroe, history would be so boring and we wouldn't have tomes
and movies on their steamy sexploits.
Gluttony
Life would be
meaningless if we eat to live and not live to eat. Prisoners on death
row don't ask for a chance to read 50 Shades of Grey or listen to
Pharrell Williams' Happy. They want their last meal to be out of this
world before they go out of this world.
Greed
Modern
civilisation as we know it wouldn't exist if one person don't desire to
have just a bit more than the next. New York with its cathedrals of
capitalism would only be a figment of our imagination.
Sloth
All work and no play makes Jake a dead man at his desk without anyone
realising it for days, thinking that he was the most hardworking chap to
arrive the earliest and the last to leave. We should all stop and smell
the roses and live an enchanted life.
Wrath
We owe a huge
gratitude to a raving mad whistle-blower Edward Snowden to sound the
death knell that echoes across the world, reminding us that we are
living in a paranoid world gone mad.
Envy
An envious JFK
succeeded in landing a man safely on the moon and back. And a bunch of
green-eyed Chinese tycoons will ensure that the world's tallest
buildings continue to sprout at their own backyards, pushing civil
engineering to its limit, and Dubai out of the way.
Pride
Without it, we will be swimming in a sea of mediocrity not knowing the
limits of human capabilities in achieving the highest, fastest or the
strongest with trailblazers like Issac Newton, Usain Bolt and Steve Jobs
being superheroes that exist only in our wildest dreams.
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