Of The Seven Deadly Sins, Only Envy

All Men And Women Are Born, Live, Suffer And Die; What Distinguishes Us One From Another Is Our Dreams, Whether They Be Dreams About Worldly Or Unworldly Things, And What We Do To Make Them Come About... We Do Not Choose To Be Born. We Do Not Choose Our Parents. We Do Not Choose Our Historical Epoch, The Country Of Our Birth, Or The Immediate Circumstances Of Our Upbringing. We Do Not, Most Of Us, Choose To Die; Nor Do We Choose The Time And Conditions Of Our Death. But Within This Realm Of Choicelessness, We Do Choose How We Live.

In Recompense, Envy May Be The Subtlest - Perhaps I Should Say The Most Insidious - Of The Seven Deadly Sins.

The Decisive Moment In The Defeat Of Upper Class, Capital-s, Society May Have Come When, In Newspapers All Over The Nation, What Used To Be Call The Society Page Was Replaced By The Style Section.

The Reason 'closure' Is A Cliche Is That It Is Used Too Often, Too Imprecisely, And Doesn't In Any Case Reflect Reality. In Reality, Such Closure In Broken Friendships And Much Else In Life Is Rarely Achieved; Only Death Brings Closure And Then Not Always For Those Still Living.

No Nostalgia Runs Deeper Than That For Something One Has Never Known And Now Cannot Obtain.