TEMPTATION

by MARK PILLOS





The word

TEMPTATION

is defined as ...

Something that seduces or has the quality to seduce.
The desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid.
The act of influencing by exciting hope or desire.

A temptation is an act that looks appealing to an individual. It is usually used to describe acts with negative connotations and as such, tends to lead a person to regret such actions, for various reasons: legal, social, psychological (including feeling guilt), health, economic, etc. Temptation also describes the coaxing or inducing a person into committing such an act, by manipulation or otherwise of curiosity, desire or fear of loss.

Many have fallen because of temptation’s deceit. Ages and ages have been dusted but the immortal memories of temptation’s fraudulence has led civilizations downfall. Mesopotamia and Egypt are good examples for ancient civilizations clutched by the duplicitous ‘pleasure’ of the erotic word. Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony and Cleopatra are some of those who have fallen through the gratifying but grievous embrace of Temptation. Guinevere and Lancelot had done that against King Arthur.

Temptation has devastated the compact of brotherhood. It ruined every edifice. It pained every heart. It caused WAR… war inside and out. It gave birth to a legion of taboo.

It is the first sin that humankind has flummoxed, that lead Adam and Eve deciphered and juxtaposed GOOD from BAD. Snake is the symbol of TEMPTATION, because it gives us admonition not to touch it. But through its burnished skin, we are somewhat allured to venture the cost of this presumptuously daring spirit.

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model: DHEYLE DIZON