Well, some pleasures are bad for us: eating too muchof the wrong stuff makes us fat and gives us heart attacks, smoking gives us cancer, jumping out of airplanes can cause death, hard drugs cause addiction, and so on. For those who find those things pleasurable. I don't, but that's luck, not virute. Otherwise - well, pesonally, I've always thought Lent was dumb: and I'm always amazed when people actually observe it.
On the other hand, I have experienced a sort of breakthrough feeling when sometimes making a life-change (that can involve giving something) feels extremely good. A food to which you have a sensitivity, for example, so suddenly your health improves. Or just... decluttering has been a great pleasure to me.
But that isn't quite the same. That isn't cutting out pleasures. That's cutting out 'unnecessary stuff'.
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Date: 2007-12-30 06:10 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I have experienced a sort of breakthrough feeling when sometimes making a life-change (that can involve giving something) feels extremely good. A food to which you have a sensitivity, for example, so suddenly your health improves. Or just... decluttering has been a great pleasure to me.
But that isn't quite the same. That isn't cutting out pleasures. That's cutting out 'unnecessary stuff'.
Perhaps the trick is in knowing the difference.