Forgotten Pleasures

Forgotten Pleasures

I read a book today.

You’d think that wouldn’t be a big deal, being an author and al but it really has been a long time since I’ve read from a book. Generally I listen to them.

This is in no way to diminish the value of audio books. I listen to them quite often during the day job. However the experience of reading a book is different. Like watching a movie is different to listening to the radio. Not better, different, and pleasurable.

And a pleasure I had not indulged in, in quite some time. It’s not that my life is starved for happiness or fun. Far from it, it’s that I kept putting off this particular pleasure for one reason or another. It was late, I was tired, this episode is really interesting, I should be cooking, etc, etc.

If you need an excuse not to do something you will find seven.

Today, however, I put the phone down, opened up the book and read another chapter and it felt so good just to indulge. Like fishing out a piece of candy you’ve been saving for just that occasion.

So that’s my advice today, indulge, just a little. Is there some small, maybe mundane thing you used to take pleasure in that you’ve put off or let fade away. Maybe a tea set you only use with loose leaf tea or a snack bar you only hit twice a year?

It need not be big, it need not be decadent. Just, forgotten, maybe, like me, it’s been a long time since you’ve stepped away from the screen and just enjoyed a book while focusing on nothing else.

Whatever it is enjoy it, bring it back, rekindle that magic you’ve left behind.

Well thank you for indulging me my dear readers, and God bless.

~ S. Wallace