September 01, 2004 - Salt, cinnamon, and rum

With salt for your meat, and cinnamon sweet,
and the rum is for all your good vices.

   - from "Son of a Son of a Sailor" by Jimmy Buffett. 

Any good person will have vices. They make us who we are, individual and unique.

A vice, if course, isn't a sin. Heck, it isn't even necessarily wrong or bad.

A vice is more of a weakness, but it's a weakness in which you can find strength.

Consider a golden-age superhero. One thing most golden-age superheroes have in common is a weakness for damsels in distress. Often, they can be lured into a trap by placing their love-interest into a position of danger.

The hero is always overcome with the need to succumb to his vice. Against all reason, leaving people who depend on him, he goes out to save this damsel or love-interest. It seems that he has failed.

But what inevitably happens is that the superhero will overcome all odds and find the strength to save his love or the damsel and win the day.

In the end, to the heroic person, vices can be a source of strength and power.

We must face the obstacles vices place before us and find strength in them.

Navigation:

Previous date

Next date

Index

Back home.

Content © 2003-2004, Michael J Dangler
Updated on 09/01/2004. Site Credits / Email Me!
Basic site design from ADF.org
(Yes, I stole it!)