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Temptatioms.
Temptation.
You probably have never been tempted to do something that you know is wrong. Your upbringing tells you that many things are not allowed. Stealing, Lying, Violence to any person or living thing it has been ingrained into you from early childhood.
Have you ever been hungry, I mean really hungry or thirsty when the belly protests at any movement that you might make. The water that runs into ones mouth when one smells the bread and cakes being baked at the local bakery.
Shops or should I say shop windows are a menace to a really hungry person. Try walking past a window where the window is full with nourishing foods to eat and your stomach rolling in a continual protest at its emptiness.
Those bottles of milk left by the Milkman on the doorsteps. If you are well fed, you would not even give them a glance, but to the hungry and thirsty that is one hell of a big temptation. Nine times out of ten you would with a very guilty conscience take one of those tempting bottles of fresh cow’s milk and drink it with relish.
I am not talking about the Petite Thief that steals that too is a form of temptation. No I am not trying to make excuses for petite stealing. My plea is for those that suffer hunger and thirst for no reason of their own. Out of works or unemployed with no income of their own.
My father in the nineteen twenties up until the Second World War, Helped to keep his and other families in food by Poaching. Dad kept three Ferrets and went off to Dartford Heath to poach a few rabbits. As the fields of vegetables became ripe he and others dug out potatoes and stole cabbages and other vegetables to keep the many families in the street from going hungry.
This was not temptation this was at that moment in time a necessity. Was My father a thief, of course he was but I for one can not find it in my heart to condemn him for feeding not only our Family but many others in the street.
Are we too quick in our thinking of what is right and what is wrong? Must we not begin to weigh up the rights and wrongs the circumstances that cause one to steal? I say my father was a Hero for keeping his family in food. In my eyes he will always be a hero. Badly wounded in the war, No pension after being discharged more or less thrown to the mercies of the employers who themselves were in a bad way.
Temptations are just a word in my vocabulary it has no real meaning. My dad was a hero in the eyes of his wife and Family.
