Little pleasures
I had the thought today that life is really just about little pleasure. The big things in life are great, but don't happen all the often. So you really have to live for the little pleasures in life.
Some of my little pleasure are things like laughing at someone when they say something stupid. This is kind of tricky though, because you don't want to piss off someone at work (which is usually where you hear lot of stupid things said everyday.) So there is some definite skill involved in this. (Who knew? You need skill to gain pleasure... Well I guess you can be unskilled and gain pleasure -- but it's always better with a little skill.)
There are also material things that make me happy. Having a living room that looks like a real living room, is very nice. The fact that my TV has a stand instead of milk crates, and I have a rug... AMAZING.
I like the sweaty accomplishment after going to the gym or biking. It's like the sweat is a figurative and literal sign of the work I put in. Not that it comes to anything -- but it's a sign.
One of the best little indulgences is Neuhaus Chocolates. Great little belgium chocolatier -- not as over marketed and mass produced as Godiva -- smaller and tastier. Much more my style than overprocessed machine produced bits. I would much rather pay a bit more and get something that was made by hand and has a slightly different taste b/c of it. I think machine production puts too much into consistency and it actually takes away from the flavor. I think the same goes for beers. The major bewers are so conserned with consistency of flavor from batch to batch that the beer flavor actually suffers from it being too generalized. There's a reason that people major in different things in college instead of the generalized education in high school. The same goes for beer and chocolate. Ironically two things the the people of Belgium excel at.
Man... I need another vacation.
Some of my little pleasure are things like laughing at someone when they say something stupid. This is kind of tricky though, because you don't want to piss off someone at work (which is usually where you hear lot of stupid things said everyday.) So there is some definite skill involved in this. (Who knew? You need skill to gain pleasure... Well I guess you can be unskilled and gain pleasure -- but it's always better with a little skill.)
There are also material things that make me happy. Having a living room that looks like a real living room, is very nice. The fact that my TV has a stand instead of milk crates, and I have a rug... AMAZING.
I like the sweaty accomplishment after going to the gym or biking. It's like the sweat is a figurative and literal sign of the work I put in. Not that it comes to anything -- but it's a sign.
One of the best little indulgences is Neuhaus Chocolates. Great little belgium chocolatier -- not as over marketed and mass produced as Godiva -- smaller and tastier. Much more my style than overprocessed machine produced bits. I would much rather pay a bit more and get something that was made by hand and has a slightly different taste b/c of it. I think machine production puts too much into consistency and it actually takes away from the flavor. I think the same goes for beers. The major bewers are so conserned with consistency of flavor from batch to batch that the beer flavor actually suffers from it being too generalized. There's a reason that people major in different things in college instead of the generalized education in high school. The same goes for beer and chocolate. Ironically two things the the people of Belgium excel at.
Man... I need another vacation.
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