# Chapter 73

There are days that are just filled with pleasures. Mostly as a relief from hard work, and that is what makes them pleasurable. But if you don’t work hard, then you are taking a different path and the day filled with pleasure is so much more difficult to find and experience. This deep change of pace, this contrast, this specialness is what makes a day filled with pleasures possible and easily obtainable. In fact I am arguing today that they more concentrated and focused you are on working hard and getting it done, the more pleasurable that you will find days not working hard.

But you don’t want too many of these kinds of days, you never want them to lose their specialness. Hard physical work is my preference each day, but I only get to do that when down on the farm with my dad. My day job is a thinking job and while that is plenty difficult, it doesn’t have the added bonus of sweat. You need to sweat. Regularly. Often. This makes pretty much everything better in life but that is a different chapter than this one. There is really no debating this, but as I was walking around in a public store yesterday, the size and shape of most of the people was uniformly heavy and slow. I felt a deep and genuine sorrow for each one of them.

The reason I belabor this point a bit is that, I have far more and better pleasure days as a weight appropriate person, than I ever did as a heavy slow person. Its that sweat thing again. Have a super day!