Don’t Tickle Your Temptations
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A skin ailment can easily be healed, if it is left untouched by the person who has it, even though it might be itchy and uncomfortable. Itching a skin rash delays its healing process as well as it might even recur to its original state or even a worst state due to the aggravation caused by scratching. Many drown in the ocean by attempting to test the depth of the sea level. Similarly, numerous innocent kids have died of electric shocks by attempting to test the plug point to quench their curiosity about electricity. A rat could live longer in a house if it does not try to test its craving for the appealing piece of dry fish that is hooked to the mouse trap. Likewise, many innocent girls could have entered the matrimonial bed with integrity if they refused to let their partner tickle their feelings prior to marriage.
We all have our limitations and boundaries. Wise people will certainly evaluate their limits, knowing that temptations are deceitful and would effortlessly lead them towards grave disasters. The wise will not tickle their temptations, they would rather flee from them as they are aware that tickling may arouse their desires beyond their limit of endurance, it may persuade them to alter their original decisions.
Destruction never appears before you as a devil, it will always appear attractive and well-dressed at the point of entry.
It is complicating for an average mind to fathom the danger of temptation as it approaches as a gracefully dressed angel. In consequence, our minds should be educated with a considerable amount of knowledge and wisdom to act wisely at the point of temptation. As a youngster, I was physically strong, even though my mind was so unwise.
I was not as educated as now, nevertheless the main reason I am writing this article is that I could assist in saving the next generation as well as the adults who have destroyed many aspects of their lives, namely: physical, matrimonial, educational, parental and professional life merely because of a simple, rash decision that has been taken to tickle their temptations unwisely, assuming that the situation is under control.
Temptation is in complete contrast to an opportunity. The opportunity may show up, but temptation will follow you. The only way to overcome it, is to incapacitate it through continuous rejection. Temptation has similar characteristics compared to an aggressive salesperson. Until you reject it aggressively and continuously, it will not leave you. But the moment you tell a salesperson that you are interested in a particular product, then there is abundant probability that you will conclude buying that product. Temptation, whom I referred to as a salesperson, could be weakened by continuous rejections.
Every moment you reject, they lose their strength. If you avoid just about thousand phone calls you receive from a boy who is interested in you, then he will eventually avoid you, and seek another girl, as he would clearly understand that trying to approach you is an utter waste of time. Likewise, if you avoid temptation, Temptation will avoid you and seek other defenseless prospects.
Upskill your mind to strive for intelligence at the first reminiscence rather than reacting to emotions. Towards whom would you run at the first instance before temptation? Is it your emotions or intelligence? If you constantly run towards intelligence, then your mind will transform to seek intelligence over emotions.
However, if you run towards your emotions at the first instance, then your analysing unit will acclimatise to reach a decision purely based on emotions. That will make you more vulnerable to temptation.
Temporary happiness is futile in the presence of long-term pain. Therefore, the moment you tickle your temptation, you are attracting deep rooted pain. I was held a prisoner of drugs and sexual immorality as I tickled my temptations at a very young age.
My focus on pornography pushed me in the direction of filthy acts of sexual immorality. A few days later after I became sober from consuming drugs, I decided to consume some marijuana, justifying that it is less powerful than the disastrous heroine. Little did I know that I was tickling my temptations that would influence me to consume heroine again.
If you have overcome consuming junk food, then do not attempt to tickle your taste buds by justifying that you are going to have it only ones. Though you contemplate it is only for one time, your memory cells know that it is for a longer period thus they will undoubtedly push you towards having more from the time you try them again.
Temptation is assured to follow you, as it has a very good instinct about the nature of your five senses. Therefore, it is of great importance to understand the nature of your senses, thereby reject temptation at inception rather than allowing it to reach your mind. Do not encourage your temptations my tickling them.
Avoiding is the best strategy than resisting. I do agree that times do arise when you cannot avoid temptation as you are compelled to be in certain situations. However, whenever possible avoid temptation, if not reject it consistently until temptation gets exhausted of you forcing it to leave.
By tickling temptations, you are clearly gesturing yourself, that you are interested in them, and that you still devour a soft corner within yourself, that still craves to have a one-time affiliation. Family lives can be ruined as a result of one single text message that a married man sends to his ex-girlfriend who is also apparently married.
A simple “Hi”, could bring back all the memories between two individuals, dominating them towards an illicit sexual relationship. Though you may think it is just a “Hi” that “Hi” may transmit plenty of emotions and feelings enclosed in those two letters. Few years ago I attended a wedding of one of my good friends. He invited me to have a glass of wine.
I completely refused, knowing that I was once a drug addict, therefore my mind discerns it very well, recollecting a lot of memories on being high on drugs. Why would I attempt to get myself back into that dirty and filthy life by tickling temptations that has the potential of pulling me back towards its ultimate objective of making me a slave of that temptation?
Every time you add 5kg of extra weight on your bars, you are strengthening your muscles to lift more. Likewise, every time you reject temptation you are strengthening yourself from realising your capacity to resist temptation.
Moreover discourage them from approaching you. The ultimate purpose of temptation is to deceive you to move away from the reality and live on instant gratification based dreams. What you are actually doing by tickling temptation is that you encourage yourself to emerge from the reality and live on imaginations and fantasies. Imaginations have power exclusively when they are coupled with actions, failing which imaginations alone will hallucinate you into a deep dig of unrealistic dreams.
Think for a moment. Are you mastering over temptation or is temptation mastering over you, making you a slave of your cravings? You do not have to feel inferior to be a slave, as you are born to live a life of freedom.
A substantial amount of Sri Lankans boasts of a 70-year-old freedom from the British, not knowing that they are all still slaves, not to the Englishmen at this occurrence but to themselves.
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