You Little Sex Fiend!
Daily Meditation — 5/9/2022
Relationships & Spirituality Segments of YouDaimonia
Fundamentally, humans are driven by core desires and needs:
Sex.
Hunger.
Rest.
The internet exploded when people started using it for porn.
The “best” foods are custom made by scientists in labs for maximum taste, texture, and addictiveness.
People will plan entire days off to sit on a couch 12+ hours playing a game.
Lust.
Gluttony.
Sloth.
Knowing this serves us twofold.
First, remembering this we can go forth into the world better equipped to understand the motivations and perceptions of others.
Secondly, we can remember that for ourselves. As Stoics or those pursuing Eudaimonia, bearing in mind our proclivities — arousal, gluttony, laziness — to equip ourselves to become better than who we were yesterday.
This is the ultimate aspiration — to do better and to do what is right at all times…
To act in a manner consistent with our goals.
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These are distillations from my coming book “YouDaimonia: the Ancient Philosophy of Human Flourishing.”
