Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Comfort Above All

One of my problems since youth has been the seeking of comfort. Comfort above all else … and now, I'm given to understand this is a bad thing because of all those things I've gained (fat) and lost (money, etc., etc.) in the pursuit of the hedonistic lifestyle.

Adam Carolla, whose morning show is a must-listen for me these days (Boise's local stations suck steaming piles of camel shit) had this to say about comfort: be harder on yourself.

So that's what I'm going to do from now on: be harder on myself. A lesson worth learning, and a hard one to have learned after all this time.

A quip, from Will of A Suitable Wardrobe further underscores the idea:

Pursued as a goal, comfort is the enemy of elegance.

He adds that the rest of us are the poorer for it and though he's speaking about men's fashion, it's too true.

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