Eve tempted Adam... but should Adam have given in?

I haven’t written in a while.

The reason behind it is that I haven’t really known what to write.

A lot has changed, practically speaking anyway. I’ve finished school, and am preparing for university; new experiences, new knowledge and new people.

Yet I’m just as confused as ever.

There’s a new boy. He’s perfect, literally. He’s tall and handsome and sweet; he has that rare quality of being a best friend as well as a lover. And yet, as predictable as I am, I’m not satisfied.

Being my harsh cold-hearted self, other men like old flames and even new ones appear in my life and I have to stop myself acting upon my whims and desires.

But am I meant to simply accept that I want immediate gratification and so become happy for those short periods of time; or is the aim to avoid temptation, after all, perhaps Adam would be thought upon more kindly if he’d resisted the fruit, his own temptation.

Though if I am going to bring biblical stories into this moral debate I suppose it’s only fair to look at Eve’s role as a temptress. After all, many feminists now argue that it portrays women as seductresses; deflecting at least a proportion of the blame from Adam.

So is it the men’s fault for tempting me; or my own fault for finding it so hard to resist?

Your own individual stance on the debate will depend on how moral you want to be; or perhaps how righteous you think you are.

Though many of us would like to think we are inherently good, compassionate people who are perfectly capable of doing the ‘right thing’, whether it’s that chocolate in the cupboard or that handsome man standing at the bar or that person you want revenge on presenting you with a perfectly good opportunity… I guess we all give in to temptation at some point.

It all comes down to the question of is it just human nature, or is there a bit of both Adam and Eve in us all?