Before getting into this, I decided awhile back it was necessary to flesh out the natural process of short term temptations. This thread is a collage of those notes, some which are thought strings. The structure may seem sporadic.
[A]
Temptation is the tallest mountain. The cruel compulsion from within to rob yourself in exchange for immdieate comfort. It's always how this trade works. Take now and be given little later and inverse, take little and be given an adequate amount. Newtons third law in practical application.
[B]
I see two types of people, those that let the temptation dictate them and those that abstain from it. No matter the background or content of character, a person who has made a habit of succumbing cannot be trusted. If they cannot keep faith with themselves, they cannot keep an agreement with others without blundering. Whether it's of ignorance of this mechanic in human nature or by choice, there is no saving these people. That choice becomes habitual and eventually becomes the framework to a persons mind structure. After so long it no longer is avaliable as a choice, they are literally addicted to the short term gain, craving the compulsion of quick relief, a slave to sloth, an advocate of complacency and will rationalize it accordingly. These are people that let their surrondings live and make a direction for them.
[C]
Personal discipline isn't a road you can direct others onto, it has to be chosen or they will revert the moment they are alone with that choice. The rationalization for a hedonistic lifestyle is always the same delusion. They make the best of their situation by perceiving themselves as some free spirited iconoclast, when it couldn't be more wrong. Living on a whim is not a "free" lifestyle, they are slaves to compulsory drives. No different than any other drug.
[D]
The impact of robbing yourself is substantial when it comes to your personal freedom. Giving yourself less of a reward is incentivizing a low sense of self worth and is a detour from the long term goals every individual has. Despite this world being full of carnal pleasures that your seven sense are bombarded with, it is the intangible long term comforts that hold value here. There are very little places for temporary pleasure at the expense of your direction. What you live for, is what you die for.
