martes, 14 de octubre de 2008

Untankfulness

All humans are unique; however a percentage shares some qualities. They may include irresponsibility, envy, not sharing and being unthankful. Few people stop their daily routines to think, and thank whatever they believe in or whoever they are supposed to. The disabled, poor, sick and many other types of people which suffer from very serious misfortunes, are true. Although, some privileged “suffer” of irrelevant and unlegit causes. The holy scriptures have repetition emphasizing how important it is to be thankful. Mythology isn’t exempt from this task. On the story of Cadmus, were he had received help and blessings from the gods (this is obvious, now that he was the king of a city thanks t to the willing of the gods, which told him how to do it) and later killed a sacred serpent and insulted them; he and his wife get turned into snakes. “A fatality hung over the family of Cadmus in consequence of his killing the serpent sacred to Mars. Semale and Ino, his daughters and Acteon and Pentheus, his grandchildren, all punished unhappily, and Cadmus and Harmonia quitted Thebas… -If a serpents life is so dear to the gods, I would I were myself a serpent. No sooner than he uttered the words… both became serpents. ” (Bulfinch, page 97 & 98.) The punishment may not be as extreme as is it today. People who are unthankful hit against a very hard wall, one which might hurt them allot.

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