Reducing opportunities - eliminating harmless pleasures

Against this list of pleasures tick all those that do not cause obsessive thoughts, in effect any pleasures that are just nice things that happen to you and you are happy to have if they come, but you don’t spend a lot of time worrying yourself or scheming if they don’t.  Brussels sprouts for example.  I like brussel sprouts but I don’t obsess about them.

A harmless pleasure is one where if it happens it happens, if it doesn’t then there is really nothing to worry about, if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t.

What you should now be left with are the things you obsess about and here is where the damage occurs.  Because if we obsess about something that has given us pleasure of a very heightened kind, or that we think may give us pleasure, then we are liable to spend our whole time scheming and organising our lives and creating opportunities to get it.  And if it isn’t there, we spend all our time agonising over the fact that it isn’t there.

My list is simple.

Chocolate and love [not sex, love].