Nothing Better Than A Simple Pleasure
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🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:22.8 | Nothing better than a simple pleasure. |
| 0:30.0 | Sometimes it's obvious why certain things are expensive, why people will pay more for it. |
| 0:34.9 | The feel of a luxury vehicle, the taste of one of those insane smoothies from Arywan, |
| 0:40.0 | the upgrade to a better seat on an airplane. |
| 0:42.8 | It's not cheap and maybe you don't do it all the time, |
| 0:45.1 | but when you can afford it, you go for it. |
| 0:47.4 | It almost makes you question this whole stoicism thing. |
| 0:50.0 | You wonder if perhaps you're not more of an Epicurean after all. And then there are those |
| 0:54.7 | things, those moments in life when you are reminded how little you actually need, how little |
| 0:59.3 | it takes to live a fulfilled and happy life, as Mark's realis one said. |
| 1:03.8 | You grab a glass of ice water that sat long enough for the ice to melt and the water to get |
| 1:08.4 | just perfectly cold. |
| 1:10.3 | 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. |
| 1:17.0 | It's funny for all their reputation as hedonists, these were the types of pleasures that the Epicureans cherished too. |
| 1:24.0 | There's a letter from Epicureus and you can read his writings in this great collection called |
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