"People never crumble in a day, It's a slow fade.." - Slow Fade, Casting Crowns
I think that particular phrase is really meaningful. It talks about all of us.. People don't just lose everything in one day.. They don't just suddenly wake up one morning and suddenly lose everything.. It is the things they do which makes them lose all of it. It's the decisions they make which eventually leads them to that situation..
The decisions usually take a long time to get you in deep shit because it doesn't take one decision to land you there, it takes multiple decisions.. You make one after another, and that makes it a killer.
Now, you may think that you wouldn't land in that current situation no matter what. The truth is, you'll never know.. Some people don't realise that they are already on the road to their "doom" until it is too late. They were unaware that the choice they made was the wrong one. They weren't aware that what they did could lead them to the very place they were certain they wouldn't be in.. That is because they were not careful..
"Be careful little eyes what you see"
Temptation is always present in our lives, it often tempts us to quench our desire.. Therefore we are always not careful and end up seeing our desires, which is almost always bad..
"It's the second glance that ties your hands as darkness pulls the strings"
If we start to give in to our temptations, then things would become worse. We would take it to the next level. We would further do something else to further quench our desires.. This is the part where we would no longer have control and we start going downhill because we find ourselves doing more and more things which eventually leads to us losing everything we had..
In these kind of situations, we would often think of ourselves rather than what we have now. We would not think about others. We would always think about what we want.. Therefore people act on them and do not realise the consequences..
These are the steps that causes people to lose everything, and it usually takes a long time for it to progress until the end.. it's always a slow fade, and not a sharp fall..
Maybe an example,
A boy had a few close friends. In school, he learned that there were two groups of people, the popular ones and the not so popular ones. He wanted to be popular so he would do anything to become popular. In school, people get popular by making fun of others and bullying others because everyone thinks it's cool.
He then decided to do all that was necessary to become popular. He started to turn on his friends and made fun of them. He became more and more popular because he had the bad boy image.. However, as his popularity went up, his relationship with his friends went down.. That relationship and trust was slowing breaking away..
After a while, they stopped interacting with each other. The boy became popular, but he didn't have real friends anymore. Everyone knew him, but was it really worth it? Sacrificing his relationship with his friends over popularity.. It seemed like the necessary thing to do then and he gave in to temptation to do it and in the end he lost his true friends..
Desires.. temptations... that's all that is needed to cause you to lose everything.. Therefore the moral here is, be careful where you eyes look, be careful what your ears here, and be careful where you walk, because you might come across something that tempts you. Even when temptation draws you, do not give in, resist, for when you give in, you are on a one way road to your own destruction..
Remember, people do not crumble in a day, it's usually a slow fade, and you probably won't realise it until it is too late..
