No one is exempted when it comes to temptations. No matter how you go around it, temptations always get the better of you. Unless the ideal catches up with you and you “put on the brakes and tell yourself, what is going on? Even your age does not help because one can always justify, “why not now when time is running out on me”!
The term dichotomy is a complex term in itself because a person is supposed to be whole. This however is better said than done. We really try to minimize if not eradicate dichotomies within ourselves so that the ideal us always gets to win and for our own good!
So we try and try and try and where do we find ourselves in? Like the proverbial scenario, what is not good but tastes and feels like honey hook us in. Somehow the dichotomy is more real than fiction. Perhaps it is because the temptations are really exciting and tangible to the senses.
What then? There should be more conscious effort to do something better all the time if the ideal has to win and temptations can stay but always get defeated. Leonardo de Caprio has a movie which captures this situation: “Catch me if you can”.