The modern person, especially living in megapolis, idolizes his career, success and living-timetable, where every step, every working day, visit to the gym, telephone calls and meetings with relatives and friends are schedule minute-by-minute.
We learn to talk on mobile phones brief and to the point: only about important things, “on business“. Even our rest is quite often planned beforehand, and it also has a schedule. We rush in a breakneck speed, winning the right for rest and happiness, sometimes losing their meaning, depriving ourselves of live. At one time or another, “sweets of life” have become a prize, which are available only at the cost of enormous efforts and unswerving determination.
We deny ourselves everything, full out with work, fearing not be in time. The success of our career is growing rapidly, external achievements often amaze with magnitude, but more often we feel inferiority complex and anxious dissatisfaction. But if the system has failed? And clue to pleasure – is its receiving? In our everyday language the words “hedonism” and “pleasure” have become almost vituperative. Meantime, the ancients (who were very likely wiser than we are) could enjoy life and appreciate its pleasures.
Also some people suffering from difficulties and depressions are disposed to some ways of relax. But it is important that the minutes of pleasure will not be overloaded with unrealistic expectations or provoked with a feeling of despair, as they aggravate the matter, leading to sense of guilt and low self-esteem. You also should not expose your organism to excessive load (it is impossible fasting for a month, and then eat at once a whole cake). So you should measure out a dose, practice it regularly, make them a rule of your life, rather than try to squeeze in the time-table week-long “vacation”.
And if you want to make the first step, some very simple and even free things are quite available:
- Find a bench in the park, sit down and watch the life
- Lie in the hammock and contemplate starry sky.
- Dance on the waves in the ocean
- Walk without purpose, wander forth
- Read a book in a complete silence
- Take a nap in the sun
- Take a bath with candles
- Sleep, sleep and sleep to the point of exhaustion
- Watch a film of French director
- Massage feet
- Make love in the rain
- Dance dirty dances
- Seat in a silence
- Cachinnate