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The Seven Deadly Sins-
Mini stories for adaptation in shortfilms or etc. (Copywrited stories by Sohini Mukherjee)
Pride- pride was a young man of 20 with the perfect face, height and body. he was flawless. he spent hours in the morning to groom himself and the rest of his day was spent in self appraisal. people around him were always talking about how perfect he is. but perfection isnt forever. fate spoke up when pride met with a serious accident and was left with a permanent scars on his face and body. he wasnt perfect anymore. people stopped talking About his beauty and instead talked about how unfortunate he is.
envy- envy was a girl of 19 who was fat and not so fair. her marks in class were not impressive either. on the other hand her bestfriend was the definition of perfection. she was fair, skinny and the topper of the class. envy always whined about how life is so unfair because everyone except her has all the things she ever wanted. but envy wanted to be perfect. she tries to pick a fight with her bestfriend for no reason. but instead of pulling her reputation down envy herself becomes a victim of extreme mockery and is left heartbroken.
gluttony- gluttony was more than a healthy kid for his age. his parents were working and too busy to look after their son. gluttony would go out and instead of playing with his friends he would spend money on food. he wouldnt stop eating for the world. he ate more than he should and could until he was surfeit. at the age of 20 gluttony was said to be at the peak of obesity where he had the highest risk of a cardiac arrest. it was a life or death situation for him until he chose to undergo a surgery and had to go on a strict diet for the rest of his life.
greed- greed was a middle family girl with hardworking parents with strict moral values. but greed wasnt happy in her life. she would see her friends with iphones and expensives bags and get jealous. one dAy she met a mysterious man who offered her lots of money for a job which was anything but moral. the job was to smuggle drugs. but greed agreed to do it. until the day police caught the whole gang and greed was arrested.
lust- lust was a married man with a beautiful wife who would do anything for him. they had a sweet little family and they seemed to be happy. but the truth is lust was attracted towards other women. he would stalk his wife's friends and other random young girls on facebook and read women's magazines. he also had a girlfriend at his office. but soon his lustrous days were over. his wife found out About his extra marital affair and filed a divorce against him. Also he was fired from his job.
sloth- sloth has been lazy all her life. but little did she realise that time once gone will never come back. she wouldnt go to school for days because she wanted to sleep at home or sit and watch tv all day. she was so lazy that she wouldnt even get up to get the remote if it was too far. but she was going to pay for her laziness soon.she has already failed once in 12th grade. She was given another chance. her finals were approaching and also the final dates for submitting the AIEEE form. her parents wanted her to be an engineer. but sloth was too lazy to be anything. on the last day of submission sloth decided to sleep a little longer. as hours passed by the last day of submission was gone. she also failed her finals. sloth had wasted one more year of her life.
wrath- wrath was the colony bully. he and his gang were feared by all the colony members because of his violent nature and foul mouth. the girls in the society were unsafe and hardly anyone went out after 7. wrath would break into people's house and beat the people or break all the furniture without a word. but soon came the end of his days. one of the colony members finally decided to report to the police. wrath was arrested along with his gang and the colony was now safer.
P.S. If you are going to use my stories in a shortfilm/ad or any kind of visual media or any other media, kindly email me at sohini.mukherjee95@yahoo.com for a written permission.
Have you heard parents claiming their child has been under the influence of a bad company which altered his behavior towards them? Or their child has been doing things they strictly asked him not to, hiding from them?
But why the need to hide?
Parents nowadays are so busy in their confined lives that their children have no other option but to go out and confide in strangers. And when something goes wrong and the situation is discovered all the blame falls upon the child's stupidity and disobedience. Have they ever, even for once, considered the lack of faith in their children? They were not available when their daughter had her first break up or their son got shamed for his cowardice. Because these things are not supposed to be their concern. They asked them to stay away from trouble. Now they won't save them.
For years I have been one of the many troubled teens dealing with all the drama alone. Relationships, catfights, zoning out are just a few to name. My parents even blamed my lack of judgmental qualities when I was betrayed by my friends. They instead told me that they always saw it coming and had tried to warn me but I wouldn't listen. But no one is going to investigate the truth behind that, are they?
They tell us to stay away from people they think are not right for us. But on what basis are they judging them? Now don't tell me they know it just because they are our parents. No dude being a parent doesn't give you two ultra sensitive antenas on your head which vibrate on the sight of something harmful. (Though we should try inventing this thing okay). They do this because they personally don't like them or have heard stories of kidnapping of children after befriending strangers. They even fail to give them the benefit of doubt. Instead they tell us they have lot more experience. But having experience doesn't make you an expert in everything.
We children(yes that's what we really are) have a weird way of working. Either confine us in or let us loose. There is not no in between. Now most parents like to do what is easier, confine us in , because that's what they're taught to do. Their parents and their parents' parents have also done the same. Its like a tradition to be followed to keep things in control. But are we in control really? I guess you already answered that.
We go out, we meet people, we talk, we share. Some make their way into our lives which eventually makes us closer to them more than our parents. Not all of those people are our true friends though. We make mistakes sometimes and fall in trouble. Of course our parents won't live with us forever and we have to live without them after a certain point of them. But aren't we supposed to be prepared for
that? Then why all the restrictions? Why not instead help us deal with the situation?
The only problem is they think they have experienced it all and the best way to save us from falling is keeping us in our nests till we grow up and then kicking us out in time so that we learn how to fly. But, we are not birds. Our instincts are not so easily determined.
Only a bird which is caged wants to explore the outer world more than anything else. The more you try to keep it trapped, the more it will try to fly away the first chance it gets. In the same way the more restrain we face, the more we try to break free. So why restrain at all? Why not instead encourage us to explore and not only introduce us to the various dangers of life but also give the will power to face them? After all only then we learn to be wise, don't we?
I really hope my point is made clear here because I don't even remember why I started writing this.
Later.
