✋🏽 on resisting temptation
No hints as to what this week's edition contains, or it would be giving the game away, you’ll see...
6 July 24 | Vol 3 Issue 6
Will power. Self determination. Resisting temptation.
There are a thousand ways life can test our will power. Giving up illicit substances, gambling, smoking, alcohol, dairy, meat, whoring, caffeine, and if you give up all these things, most likely your sense of humour too.
The determination in getting to the gym more than twice, having just joined after New Years. In writing those thank you letters at Christmas, if anyone still does that. Sorting out your sock drawer. Doing a Duolingo lesson a day.
Will power may have a thousand ways but temptation offers a thousand and one. The constant battle between waistline and muffins. And chocolate. And ice cream. And biscuits. And cake. Eating the whole tube of Pringles in one go. Any number greater than one when popping out for that proverbial ‘just one drink’. Getting chips on the way home. Getting chips, a burger and a shake on the way home.
No matter how difficult our personal tug of war with these forces are, we all exhibit in us a superpower I’ve never seen acknowledged. A superpower that shows immense will power and holding your hand up in temptation’s face.
What is this superpower? It’s this. Not jumping ahead and reading the last page of a novel.
How is this possible? It’s a page turner we cry, “I simply have to find out what happens”. Or even the inverse, it’s rather dull but I have to finish it. The solution is patently clear. Just flip to the last few pages and read the ending.
But we don’t. We hold the book in our hands the whole time, resisting cheating, demonstrating a stoic reserve to make Marcus Aurelius jealous.
Now, if we could only channel the same display of will power when it comes to not scoffing both layers of the box of chocolates in the same sitting, as we do in not skimming ahead and reading the end of the novel, we could become Gods.
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