I'll confess: I can be a bit hedonistic sometimes. I have some alcoholics in my family, and I like to think that they're to blame. I'm pretty sure that the same gene that causes an "addictive personality" is probably also linked to a general "more is more" approach to life. This is one of the reasons that I often find myself thinking things like, "If watching an episode of House while playing on the internet is fun, I bet watching an entire SEASON of House will be even better!" Or, "Why sleep for 8 hours when you can get away with 12?" Or, "I could eat a few mini Reese's cups each day, but why do that when I can eat the whole bag now nomnomnom?" I don't mean to give you the wrong impression - I have self control, I deny myself sometimes, but I'm trying to explain why, after 2 weeks of vacation (give or take) I found myself thinking, "Just another three days, that's all I need. I cannot possibly go back to work when I could be spending an additional three days sleeping and eating all day and watching TV and playing video games all night."
Of course, the problem with this approach to life is that there is often also pleasure to be found in hard work. It's taken me an unusually long time to truly accept this fact, but it helps a lot when it comes time rein in my inner three-toed Sloth. Nevertheless, I was pleasantly surprised to find that once I returned to work this week, I kind of... actually enjoyed it? Which is doubly awesome considering I expected to be miserable having to come back from a great time with family and friends and presents and food. So, here's to productivity! And responsibility! And hard work!
... On the other hand, I wasn't thinking about the joys of hard work last night when I skipped the gym and watched 4 episodes of House.
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