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HEARTS OF HUMANS — Even if you’re not religious, it’s more than likely you’re familiar with the famous seven deadly sins, but let us refresh.
We’re talking about pride, envy, wrath, gluttony, greed, lust and sloth. They do have some room for interpretation, but I did my best to break it down.
- Pride will make you talk too much in meetings when you have nothing to say. (We get it, Carl. You did the thing, but can we go to lunch now?)
- Envy means you'll have to start taking care of a little green-eyed monster. It's a 24-hour job with all that insatiable hunger in a beast that is never satisfied with whatever you feed it.
- Wrath is inevitable when you drive on Utah roads and wonder why people don’t use their blinkers, why they pass on the right and why they travel in the left lane as cars stack up behind them.
- Gluttony will force your relatives to roll you out to your car after eating your third full plate at your latest holiday feast. And the same thing will happen next time, even though you swore, “never again.”
- Greed will make you more than a little crabby and antisocial as you do your best impression of Scrooge McDuck or Smaug and swim alone in your piles of gold and treasure. It will also make you shout cliches like “If I can’t have it, no one can!”
- Lust (in the context of deadly sins) is something I’ll let your parents or guardians explain to you because I have limits as a contributing writer at KSL.com.
- Last but not least, there’s sloth, which I call the “Netflix sin.” Admit it, you watched the new release of “Gilmore Girls” this weekend in an hourslong sitting (or “Daredevil” or “Stranger Things” or “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” You get where I’m going here. And yes, I binge-watched all those things.)
