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Shvoong Home>Books>WHAT IS EASILY GAINED IS EASILY LOST Review

WHAT IS EASILY GAINED IS EASILY LOST

Book Review   by:gurtey     Original Author: gurtey
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A large majority of those born with a silver spoon, grow in such a way as to wrap themselves in a cocoon of their own facile imagination into thinking that they enjoy by right so many advantages for which others have to keep striving, more often than not in vain. With the passage of time this overgrowth becomes an encrustation that, in a figurative sense may, from partial opacity in the early stages, cause total blindness. This kind of unrealistic outlook is generally more pronounced where a person is of a generation that is yet to build up a tradition of continued affluence. One important lesson which most of us learn in the course of our lives through practical experience is that the body is the servant of the mind that operates either by conscious choice or irrepressible impulses stemming from external stimulus. Most of us are lucky by the grace of God to know before it is too late that disease or good health, misery or happiness, self-mastery or being a puppet to others, ever-fresh youthfulness or rapid aging and decay are all rooted in the mind. In the case of ,the newly rich [especially where the opulence has been attained through unethical means] the parent is always busy amassing ‘ilth’[antonym of wealth] and does not find time for the proper rearing of his children.
Living in his shadow in the same roof, by the time they become adults they become hardened men well schooled in the belief in a eleventh commandment of their own – stoop to anything and stop at nothing to gratify your thirst for pleasures, but do not get caught’. As dirt gathers dirt, there is always a crowd of riffraff to madden with sycophantic paeans of praise in return for the ‘treats’ doled out to them. The ancient adage is ‘When wealth is lost there is no real loss: when health is lost something is lost: when character is lost all is lost’. In the malevolent combination of circumstances, our heroes [or rather villains] are doomed from birth to race to an inglorious death. To look at it in a different way, they are shining examples of how one should not live, but there again we are up against the human weakness never to heed moral precepts which are aplenty or to learn lessons from examples of deviant deportment.
Published: April 10, 2007   
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