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RE: GLUTTONY (Poetic Series: Seven Deadly Sins)
ive never thought of glutton as a deadly sin. what about you? I mean compared to the other sins
ive never thought of glutton as a deadly sin. what about you? I mean compared to the other sins
It's an odd one isn't it? I accept that it is one of them. In my writing I explain my reasons why I feel that way.
I've always seen the unhealthy overindulgence in food (although it dosn't necessary have to be just food) as an obsessive behavior. One that is born as a reaction or coping mechanism to other issues in one's life. It's as bad a turning to alchohol for the comfort. In fact it's the same thing in this context.
All of it leads to no place that is good. A dark place and downward spiral to demise. Only more and new problems to worry about.
It's not so much being overweight that's the problem, it how gluttony never treats the root of a problem and after all that and the price you've paid, you are still stuck with the same problems. The result is more problems...
I say all this out of some amount of experience. I struggled with being overweight to various extents most of my life. For me it was lack of confidence in myself, especially when I was young. High school was brutal. I wanted to die after constantly hearing people refer to me as fat. But despite their cruelty, I never took responsibility for understanding why I didn't have confidence and made it worse by finding comfort in eating.
It never made me happy to look into the mirror at my body. So we need to be real and admit that gluttony can never be good and only leads to a worse place.
Surely it's no less a deadly sin than sloth or any of the others?
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