Venus heard how Psyche was called more beautiful than her, and ordered her son Cupid to go down to Earth and make her pair up with a filthy man. However, Cupid, amazed by Psyche's beauty could not dare, and therefore chose to stay with her. However, Psyche could not see Cupid, and one day she was convinced by her sisters as they said, "one night kill him, and we can take over his riches." One night she decided to kill Cupid, however she was baffled by his beauty. Cupid then said he was disappointed how she betrayed him and took everything away from her; the beautiful place they stayed at, and left. The moral of this story is that we must let go of at least one thing to receive a great deed in return. In this case, Psyche had to give up her temptation of wanting to see her husband's face; this way she would keep receiving all the grateful things. However because she kept wanting things, instead of giving up something herself, at the end she lost everything. In a way this would be a practice of 'karma,' a belief of Hindus how if one does a bad deed, they will receive punishment in return. Through this myth, I think we should all be thankful of what we already have.
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