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What Would Be Your Fatal Flaw?

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  1. Gen

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    Most people are likely familiar with tragic flaws, fatal flaws, hamartia, etc. For those who aren't, these are flaws held by protagonist in literature that represent a significant part of their characterization and often lead to their downfall.

    Popular examples of fatal flaws would be:
    • Ambition
    • Envy
    • Gluttony
    • Greed
    • Hubris
    • Hypocrisy
    • Lust
    • Passionate Love
    • Selfishness
    • Selflessness
    • Sloth
    • Vanity
    • Wrath
    Of course, there are many more and there are no limitations. So, if you were a fictional hero, what would be your fatal flaw? (You can pick multiple.)

    I'll start us off:

    Ambition: I feel that obsessed sounds extreme and irrational and I would rather not openly describe my dive with such strong words. So, I will say that I am secretely in denial that I am obsessed about my career. Although I am not truly obsessed in the sense that I allow my aspirations to consume my life, I have accepted the fact that my career is something that I could never be happy without. I obviously value relationships and the other aspects of life; and I always make sure to keep a balance. Ultimately, I have to say that my fatal flaw would definitely be ambition with a possible death by exhaustion or, in a fictional exaggerated world, I could possibly turn into an anti-hero whose ambition turns them into a calculating, manipulative monster. But the latter only in a fictional world. I would never sabotage my competition to get ahead. Never...
     
    #1 Gen, Apr 27, 2015
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    Lust is generally the first one that comes to my mind so its probably that one.

    Sex has caused many issues in my life and yet I still seem to use it as an escape from the real world. I day dream about it and desire women strongly despite being with a man. I have a stronger sex drive than most people I have known.

    Sloth is probably second. I work two jobs and try to bury this one deep but if left to my own devices, I would prefer to stay in bed all day in one way or the other. :icon_wink LoL
     
    #2 myheartincheck, Apr 27, 2015
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    Hamartia, hamartia, hamartia.
    Probably the bipolar relationship I have with empathy and apathy.
     
    #3 DragKing692, Apr 27, 2015
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    Sloth. Procrastination and putting things off will definitely be the death of me.
     
    #4 Jellal, Apr 27, 2015
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    laziness

    my schoolwork suffers horribly from my lack of studying
     
    #5 Hatsune Miku, Apr 27, 2015
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    Self-Doubt: The moment I start taking steady steps is the moment I'll get somewhere.
     
    #6 Rawrzilla, Apr 27, 2015
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    Narcissism, Sloth, and Contradiction.
     
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    A common one, laziness (or sloth I suppose but that sounds too pretentious). However, sometimes I feel like my shyness is a flaw as well because I can be socially awkward at times because of it.
     
    #8 butHitlerisDead, Apr 27, 2015
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    Selflessness

    Putting others before myself. Never took time to think about what I want
     
    #9 BlueRam13, Apr 27, 2015
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    Selflessness and my depression, can that be a fatal flaw?? But no I would literally be like I am dying or hello there also dying human have this one peanut.
     
    #10 magicalkat, Apr 27, 2015
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    All of them. :wink:

    But in all honestly, probably vanity. :/ I usually find myself acting like I'm above others, sadly.
     
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    I feel the same way.
     
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    Ambition and passionate love. I fall too hard sometimes.

    Additionally, maybe sloth. I procrastinate a lot, but I still end up getting everything done.
     
    #13 Adarya, Apr 27, 2015
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    1) Incisiveness

    2) Selflessness.
     
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    Lack of social confidence and strange bipolar tendencies.
     
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    Lust > Greed > Sloth
     
    #16 Chiroptera, Apr 27, 2015
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    Wrath, sloth, and envy.
     
    #17 waitwhat, Apr 27, 2015
  18. Gandee

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    Sloth...I would have the whole world in my palm by now.
     
    #18 Gandee, Apr 28, 2015
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    Gen, I don't want to write a paper! Which is exactly what this topic is telling me to do.

    =P
     
    #19 Kaiser, Apr 28, 2015
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    Sloth, or laziness (are they the same?) Sometimes I get so far behind that I really need to work to avoid getting into trouble. Then I amaze myself at how much I can do. I can clear mountains of work in no time. Like Gandalf said, it has sometimes occurred to me that I could probably rule the world if I just stopped answering questions like this on forums and actually did something.

    But I sometimes wonder if the real flaw is something behind that? Maybe a lack of confidence and self belief which makes me put off work. A sort of perfectionism? I see that trait in other gay men sometimes.
     
    #20 Camel, Apr 28, 2015
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