Temptation - to give (in), or not to give (in)

"I can resist everything except temptation"
-Oscar Wilde

I start my post with this famous epigram, not 'coz it happens to contain the first word of my title, but 'coz these could have been my original words,had he not thought of it first. :) Ah well, who am i kidding! But i agree with him on those words.
We have all been slaves to this flirtatious evil, the weaker more often than the stronger. But temptation has many arms, many facets,many nets-the strong may elude this one,but turn weak in the next...
temptation seems to be omnipresent. Where ever we look, which ever way we turn,which ever path we trod on, there always seem to be mini traps laid around by her.And no matter how prudent we are,we just cant seem to save ourselves all the time. When we are busy exulting over having saved our right leg, she clutches on to the left.
Take me for example. As a connoisseur of shopping( and i use connoisseur,for shopping is indeed an art) the temptations I find are of the highest order, and the maximum in number. Just when i save myself from falling in love with the purple sequin top (ridiculously priced at Rs 950), my eyes fall on the adjacent dark blue lee cooper jacket, and while i struggle against two instead of one, it suddenly grows to four against poor me in the form of a pair of lovely earrings hanging a few feet away from me and the stunning pair of heels beckoning me through the glass display from the opposite store. All this happens so amazingly fast, that my mind has already lost the battle to my heart, and you ll see me walking out of the store with the jacket and earrings in hand, heading towards the stunning heels. such is the power of temptation.
If you have been ridiculing me while reading the above para, let me tell you,shopping might not be your pit fall.But something else definitely is. Maybe it's the Adidas sports jersey, or your street-corner panipuri,or mouth-watering rasgollas, or the latest barbie doll,or the PlayStation 3, or the cadbury's temptations! The truth is that we all have our unique Achilles heel and temptation holds that knowledge close to her heart.
But why does temptation always have a negative tinge to it? Who said it is wrong to give in to your temptations at times! If you end up in trouble 'coz of your wicked temptations, thats okay! Life lets you make mistakes right? After all, we have been taught to learn from our mistakes. If we dont make any, how else will we learn our lessons!! ;)

p.s. And for those who have been scratching your head over the sense of deja vu the title is giving you, here's a little help for you : to be, or not to be :D