Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Sin carries in it its own misery.
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
Tragedy makes you grow up.
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
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