What does a Hercules Beetle have to do with hedonism? Haven’t the foggiest. No wait, it’s nature indulging its own hedonism…I mean look at it! Muséum de Toulouse [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, from Wikimedia Commons
Hedonistic.
Remarkably the peanut butter is healthier than it sounds, but it tastes like you’re cheating on adulthood. Heavenly.
Which is another H word I didn’t consider but here we are eighty words in so I’m committed.
There are those things we tend to deny ourselves because we “shouldn’t.” Not because they’re objectively bad or harmful to ourselves or others, but because we build up these matrices in our heads: the allowed; the forbidden; the OK sometimes; the OK but make sure you feel bad about it.
But here’s the thing. We’re living in a world where Armageddon doesn’t seem impossible, where it feels real and close and some days, inevitable. Is there really room in the universe for “OK but make sure you feel bad about it?”
I don’t think so.
Build a little hedonism into your life. Not the kind that can destroy it or you, just the kind that gives you permission to enjoy things without the trip to the guilt gallows. Like chocolate chip cookie peanut butter.
You’ll have to excuse me now, I have some hedonistic toast to demolish.
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Enjoy your day, and thanks for permission to go and get myself some cookies to keep me happy in work! 🙂
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Exactly! That’s the spirit!
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Build a little hedonism into your life. Amen, sistah!
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Pass the peanut butter. I have crackers and bananas!!
Stu
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For sure! It’s fantastic, and I hadn’t thought to try it with bananas…
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Oh yuck Stu 🙂 My boyfriend likes that combo too, whereas I’m a straight P&J kinda gal.
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That bug looks like he wants more than toast.
Happy A to Zing!!!
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Thanks so much, and you! And doesn’t he?! What a weird creature!
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Cheating on adulthood sounds like a good plan once in a while. My daughter is proud to be somewhat hedonistic. I’m still working on it.
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It’s not always easy, that’s for sure. But worth it when you let yourself do it!
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Sounds delicious! Food is the best hedonism, imho.
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I was reading an article today about what constitutes a healthy diet. I don’t recall any of the items you mention being dubbed a bad idea. Unless you eat a bathtub full. In essence, most recent (weight loss) diets are nothing more than marketing, a way to sell books. Also the recent gluten-free enthusiasm is nothing more than a fad as the number of those who are allergic or intolerant is a very small percentage population-wise. Sorry, I appear to be getting on my high horse here … The moral being enjoy your small indulgences 🙂
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Thanks so much! Not sure peanut butter should taste like chocolate chip cookies, but boy is it fabulous when it does!
I’ve never been a low-carb person, either. I need bread and pasta!
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I think this is great! Indulging in something can make all the things we don’t indulge in seem OK! Melanie’s Stories
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First Stu mentions choc chip scones (wrong diddly wrong wrong wrong) and then you are talking about choc chip flavoured peanut butter! What’s next? Choc chip omellettes?? Choc chop mayonnaise???
The world’s gone mad I tell you, MAD!!!!
*Cough*
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Sorry, your comment got caught up in moderation and it never told me! luckily I checked bc of A to Z.
I say take ONE TASTE, just ONE TASTE of that peanut butter, and you’ll change your tune completely. Also I had some chocolate chip scones that were AMAZING, but they’re American “scones” which are scOnes” as opposed to actual “scahns.”
See. I know things.
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I can’t imagine a what a ‘scahn’ tastes like – some kind of New York thing? I’m not too worried about the scon/scOne thing, and beacuse I am an enlightened kind of guy (after the initial reaction to something that is culturally ‘NOT ON’, I will try out a American Scone, for the sake of having tried it. Swap recipes?
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Pshaw, you think I MADE IT??? I bought them at Trader Joes and I have no regrets. NO REGRETS!! I can see if I can find one for you, though. I’ll show you what they tend to look like on twitter.
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Imagine that I’m doing a really intense eye-roll right now…
What do you reckon to this one -> http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/11/07/american_vs_british_scones_why_the_sweet_american_kind_are_a_delicious_pastry.html
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I think that would be a palatable alternative just to get a sense.
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