Whoever decided that decadence, JOY, sheer delight, were BAD and possibly SINFUL human emotions, were sorely mistaken. Thats what we do, await the BAD to take over. This relationship I'm in is so perfect, when will he start cheating or better yet, when will I?This year has been so good to me, am I worthy?
Interesting when you think about it, instead of enjoying the outcome we're also often so ridden with the stress that it took to get there, thereby making the entire process agonising and hardly pleasureable at all. Often, we place such an emphasis on wanting something to be so great, that we aren't OK with everything just being good. Or just being at all so much so that we get so caught up in the outcome that the entire motivation behind the wanting of the end result is lost completely.
Instead of enjoying the odd pasta dish or a Sunday afternoon ice cream we worry about the amount of working out it would take to burn it off. Instead of keeping sight of the reason why you're deserving of the odd unhealthy meal, you remind yourself why you're loosing weight, why it's taken you so long to get rid of it.
Instead of being happy and celebrating the achievement - we're like....whatever, what's next? Focusing our vision entirely on the frustration, the stress.
Weight.....it is inane, but it has become the main event. Rather than appreciating the way something made us feel we start to question our frivolity, or our judgment. We forget to take the joy in, instead repremand ourselves for being doing something so insignificant.
It's as if we have this stimuli on PLEASURE, as if pleasure is bad. If we succumb to it we are being intently reckless or dangerously happy. The process of feeling guilt associated with pleasure is set in our brains so much that instead of reveling in the goodness of something that makes us happiness and stupid grinning, we rush at the first chance to throw our hands in the air in panic mode because we believe it has to be bad to feel this great.
If things are great we shouldn't be waiting for the giant rock to fall out of the sky and knock us down I'm sur you have heard people say, "Yep, everything is going so well...I'm just waiting for something bad to happen."
When your body starts saying, "Oh, this feels nice." or "I may just sleep ten more minutes..." our brain is conditioned to say, "This is so good, it must be a sin."
Seizing the pleasure for me would mean: going off to Cape Town for a week holiday with myself, sleeping until noon when I feel like it, Peche Royale Champagne all day long, singing LOUDLY, sweaty palms and butterflies, hearts skipping beats, and skipping. Just one more time, again, a little extra and side of that.
Seize the pleasure today, what would yours be?
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