Our Hero : Temptations

Our hero, a 5 year old boy is fair

Has seen apples fall without interest

Has also noticed the blur at high speed

With equal indifference

Has even heard his father talk about theory of relativity

And at this age, with all this baggage, he finds himself overburdened. So our hero, who will be 6 in some time, decides to concentrate on chocolates. Chocolates, his uncle, his favourite uncle, says are the darkest temptation since Cleopatra. Our hero has heard of her a number of times, always in the same context. Cleopatra, according to our hero, is the darkest temptation after chocolates. He had also heard of Octavius Caesar from somewhere, but couldn’t remember the name as it was too long. He remembered what chocolates were called though. They could be eaten, one could allude as a justification, but for a five year old let us assume no justifications are needed. And then he did remember what context the name, Octavius Caesar was mentioned in. It was at a cafe when his uncle was having a mix of dark chocolate with some flavour of coffee and mentioned how chocolate was almost killed by the strong coffee just like Octavius Caesar had tried to kill Cleopatra. It was one of the instances when our hero heard of the name, Cleopatra, one more time. He went back to his pastry, which had some flavour of chocolate. And now according to our hero, a strong coffee is the strongest thing after Octavius Caesar and also according to him strong things kill temptations. But one thing he’s confused about, how then, strong temptations don’t kill themselves!