So, just quit trying to hold on to that self-control and live a little:
Have that extra cookie. Sleep with him on the first date. Call in sick, even if it's for a sample sale.
You won't regret any of it, says a new study; rather it's salads, celibacy and soldiering through the flu that will bring you down.
The report - by Ivy League professors - claims that when you hit 80 and look back on life, it's your virtues, not your vices, that you'll resent.
Just what I need, a researched reason to quit feeling bad about my self-indulgence. You know what they say: Virtue is its own punishment.
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Ivy League professors have nothing better to do than run studies to encourage people to pursue immorality over virtue? Is that what we're paying our too-highly honored academia for - to add to the moral degradation of this country? If this is what highly developed brains produce, I'll stick to good old-fashioned moral people.
What utter stupidity. Parents, beware of what your children are being taught on college campuses.
I don't doubt there is a kernel of truth in this. Covetousness is nothing new and it is not merely good things that are coveted, it is also the perceived pleasure of illicity things. But the reality is that there is no joy in evil. The allure is based on a lie. No one finds satisfaction in the arms of another woman or a bottle. They only complicate our lives and hurt those we love. Yet virture does satisfy. It is pleasant to have done good and is mostly rewarded by a loving family and friends.