Choosing Enjoyment
Fortunately, there is a better way to solve the puzzle: To stay at the party without letting it get out of control and choose enjoyment instead.
- Enjoyment and pleasure are terms often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing.
- Pleasure happens to you; enjoyment is something that you create through your own effort.
- Pleasure is the lightheadedness you get from a bit of grain alcohol; enjoyment is the satisfaction of a good wine, properly understood.
- Pleasure is addictive and animal; enjoyment is elective and human.
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