Chapter 13

This chapter really spoke to me. We aren't a collection of big, major things. Everything we do, big or small, is important to us and helps shape who we are and what we become. I can understand Screwtape's chastisement in this chapter. It makes sense that if we're happy it should be from a sin in his point of view. Even then, we shouldn't be happy, we just should be meh. I know where he's coming from, It isn't when we're happy that we do bad things, and bad things don't really make people happy. Ultimately, they want the patient to fail, but he's been happy lately, doing simple things for his pleasure, and he's being rewarded by God. This returns to my first idea, that it isn't huge acts of good that grant us boons, it's just small things, for the betterment of yourself or others that hurt no one.