The best things in life are hardly free, in fact most of the time they can end up killing you. Smoking causes cancer, drinking kills your liver, sex… what can I say… there’s AIDS, STD’s and now this. The best food is unhealthy; the best cars cause the most pollution. The list goes on and on. So unless you like Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, you better be ready to pay with your life for the things you love.
Is life unfair? If you believe in God, do you think He purposely attached a higher price tag to things that he knew we humans would love? Or is it human nature to want the things that are bad for us. I think it’s neither. I think we go looking for the dangers in everything we enjoy. Our conscience doesn’t allow us to simply enjoy the things we do without worrying about consequences. So each time we find something we love, we start looking for reasons we shouldn’t be doing it.
Fortunately for me, I don’t care :-) I think abstinence is for people who give in to the temptation of denying themselves pleasure. So I’m going to listen to my grand mothers words of wisdom “Take what you want from life.. Take it and pay for it”.
Ha ha...that's one way to look at it I guess
ReplyDeleteohmigod.. i think i quoted her on one of those things too... i dont believe u remember it too... see.. this is why you have siblings.
ReplyDeleteYep "Take what you want from life.. Take it and pay for it” as long as you know the price beforehand and are willing to pay that price!
ReplyDeleteBTW you have been tagged!
i know the feeling..i've been asked to quit smoking in a hundred different ways by ten different people
ReplyDeleteand, in "after the sunset," this is what salma hayek has to offer (before taking off her kit): the only way to resist temptation is to give in to it.