temptation

Sometimes you have to give in.  You can’t always be wanting, salivating, playing it safe…

So I went for the gold last night.  I’d been wanting a NYC slice so I ordered this entire pie.  It was pretty dang delicious. Not much I would change about eating it… but…. Did I enjoy the heartburn, massive stomachache (Why FOUR slices?), or my body’s inability to digest it so I just tossed and turned all night in discomfort?  Not really.  

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Natural selection tells us that motivating to want is what propagates a species into the next generation. If we never receive the want, we actually fall into a depression… we become lower than our baseline measurement. We disappear into the muck below the science limbo stick. I’m most likely doing a terrible job at summarizing very intelligent people’s work, but, like, that’s the gist.

This experience had me turning to my dear friend that sits by my bed, Buddha.  His teachings are based on the Four Noble Truths (obviously, this is why I ate FOUR slices… but did I mention the puttanesca pasta dish, too?) and the first one suits me just fine in my lactose hangover state:

First Noble Truth:   All existence is dukkha.

FIRST NOBLE TRUTH: all existence is dukkha

Dukkha translating to: suffering, anguish, unsatisfactoriness

But we keep living. We’ll order (and eat too much) pizza. We’ll get crazy with this world and have sleepless nights. Feeling that heart burn and keep eating every last juicy bit anyway.