everything must consume

Everything must consume in order to live, but not everything must grow.
All human failings or weaknesses must consume. Low self esteem must consume, fear must consume; they have a diet. No one has a weakness that doesn't eat into the relationships of those around them. However, they don't consume in order to grow, they consume in order to remain the same. The diet of low self esteem wont cause it to grow into good self esteem.
For this reason our failings have a cyclic form but seem impossible to break out of. They feed and then the hunger seems to lift. But they have fed in order not to change.