Nothing Better Than A Simple Pleasure

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2:26Nothing better than a simple pleasure. Sometimes it's obvious why certain things are expensive, why people will pay more for it. The feel of a luxury vehicle, the taste of one of those insane smoothies from Erewhon, the upgrade to a better seat on an airplane. It's not cheap and maybe you don't do it all the time, but when you can afford it, you go for it. It almost makes you question this whole stoicism thing. You wonder if perhaps you're not more of an Epicurean after all. And then there are those things, those moments in life when you are reminded how little you actually need, how little it takes to live a fulfilled and happy life, as Mark Sturelius once said.

3:03You grab a glass of ice water that sat long enough for the ice to melt and the water to get just perfectly cold. You catch golden hour while you're out on the porch. You pet a dog and it doesn't walk off, as one comedian recently observed. It's funny, for all their reputation as hedonists, these were the types of pleasures that the Epicureans Cherished Too. There's a letter from Epicurus, and you can read his writings in this great collection called The Art of Happiness, where he speaks rapturously about a small pot of cheese. Expensive things can be great, but often no greater than the stuff that is free or all but free.

3:38Stuff that's available to us always. Stuff that makes us rich rather than requires us to be rich. Enjoy those special pleasures. They are yours and they are wonderful.

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