The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust

I’m writting this article with no intent to preach about christianity. So whether you’re christian, muslim, atheist etc, you are welcome to read.

The seven deadly sins are deadly because they lead to poor quality of life. They cause your relationship between people around you to collapse. They make you feel unworthy, guilty, ignorance and depressed. They make you suffer. They are explanations of why my life is so bad

Each person are tested with different sins. Some wrath, some sloth and some lust. However they are not separated . They are interconnected. One begets other. When one of the deadly sins began to take control over your life , it brings the other as well. and it become deadlier.

This will be a series of article discussing about the deadly sins and I will be starting of with lust

When I talk about lust, I talk about the intense sexual desire. Lust could refer to other things, such as desire for power or food. But I want to emphasize on that overwhelming sexual desire to release.

I mean what’s wrong with releasing my sexual desire. After all,Im not hurting anyone. and It only take short amount of time to release. I can go back and do my work as nothing happened. So what could go wrong?

While the short release doesn’t seems significant to you, it actually very significant to your life. I’m going to explain this concept as simple as possible. Your world is currently a reflection of you. And it evolve continuously based on who you are.

The moment you decided to fall into lust, the world reflect back to you instantly. like a snapshot. It doesn’t matter if people see you or not. life will always reflect back to what you do. Or to be more accurate, to who you are. Some people call this karma and the path of lustful people arent very warm.

There is no love in the life of lustful people. Imagine meeting a beautiful woman and the first thing come in mind is a dirty thought.

You see people as an object to fulfill your sexual desire. You were blinded by lust. You don’t see them as a human, they only exist to fulfil my fantasies. There is only “me” and “my desire” in the story. This is not normal at all…

Then come a marriage. Here is a woman that I commit my life to. But then how many stories have you heard about scandal and cheating. When the marriage is based on lust, it is based on lust. I marry so I can have sex with my wife whenever I want. Where is the love in there?

Lustful people also tend to be more self centered. Because the core is all about me , when he meet new people, its all about “What can I get” instead of “What can I give”. Just take a look. When I see less attractive person, I will ignore her. When I see attractive person, I want to get to know her. Why, because I have fantasies of using her.

Imagine giving yourself to lust over years. It becomes part of you. No wonder why you can’t have deep relationship with people around you. No wonder why life feel horrible. You can’t love, because you’re lustful.

Pornographic material is everywhere. Feeling lustful? I can just grab porn within minutes and its done. When you are exposed to pornographic material for long time, it become part of you. The way you eat, talk, walk etc, all of them has lust in them without you even realizing it. It is an abstract concept that is hard to grasp, but its true.

Can one changes? I think it is possible. I believe it is possible. But the journey will be hard. It is about rewiring your brain to let go of the lustful fantasies and reminding yourself that the object of sexual desire is a human too. They have story, emotion and someone important to them.