Blogpost 3: Lust

Are there times where you desire something so much that you get consumed by an inordinate feeling and urges you to do something unjust just to acquire that thing even if it means depriving other men? After acquisition of something you desired, do you feel that you want more and you're yet to be content?
Such feeling is lust whereas it is the second most confessed sin of men commonly having power and sexual pleasures as its object of desire.

Lust or lechery (carnal "luxuria") is an intense desire usually thought of as excessive sexual desire; however, lust is originally a general term to define desire. Therefore lust could involve not only an intense desire for sexual pleasures but also wealth, power and reputation.

Asmodeus, the demon in command of lust

    In Dante's "Inferno", those who were overcame by lust falls in the 2nd Circle of Hell wherein the unforgiven souls of the sin of lust are blown about in restless hurricane-like winds symbolic of their own lack of self control to their lustful passions in earthly life.

Though, there's more to lust than just desiring, it also tempts you to take actions. Lust manifests in much more ways than we think. Some people says, "This is not lust, it's passion". But when passion goes over-bound, it turns into lust. These includes the excessive thinking and wishing for something that you do not work for or deserved. It is also lust when you desire things that are not of your property nor available (not for sale, inaccessible) and ultinately, when you deprive others just to attain something you desire.

Lust is an excessive desire for something, which becomes a psychological feeling of attaining its object. Men set their goals as to what they desire no matter how lowly or highly it is.
Though while we desire it intensively, our desire to attain it rises but unconsciously, our actual attractiveness declines in accordance to "Lusting While Loathing" by Ab Litt, Uzma Khan and Baba Shiv.

Well, lust's association to pride is evident when we desire to be over others instead of being submissive to others since pride only wants something better than anyone. We esteem ourselves and deprive others to lower theirs and expose our false superiority which can be identified as a work of lust since it exhibits the desire for power, a power over others.