I turn 33 in 3-2 days time.
Here are 3 things I've learnt in the last 33 years (give or take) about little pleasures
- No drink beats and ice ice cold coke from the back of the fridge in a 300ml glass bottle on a hot day. No not even beer.
- There's nothing quite like a really good book. Something that when you get to the last page you stare at it a bit forlornly in loss.
- The feeling of cracking something and doing a good job at it, or improving against your last effort. A good meal you cook yourself, a task at work, a hobby or losing a sport but improving off your last performance all count. That feeling of self worth you get is hard to take away.
1. Emchi
I absolutely agree with everything you’ve just put there. Especially the glass of coke. What is it about ice cold coke and a really hot day? even water doesn’t quench my thirst like an ice cold coke on a hot day!
The book thing… life has been a little shallow and meaningless since I finished reading Neverwhere, I haven’t been able to fill that book reading void, and I only read it last year… it’s driving me nuts!
The last point, I mostly get when I’ve gotten over the fear of something as opposed to doing something better. I rarely notice if I do, do anything better, possibly because I don’t know if I’ve done it well in the first place.