🏊🏻♀️ The Daily Ritual I Refuse To Do Without, Part Two
Catch up on part one first:
“In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends upon health alone. With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable; even the other personal blessings—a great mind, a happy temperament—are degraded and dwarfed for want of it. So it is really with good reason that, when two people meet, the first thing they do is to inquire after each other’s health, and to express the hope that it is good; for good health is by far the most important element in human happiness.
It follows from all this that the greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness, whatever it may be, for gain, advancement, learning or fame, let alone, then, for fleeting sensual pleasures. Everything else should rather be postponed to it.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life (Chapter 11)
While I should have been working out the very rough kinks in my Free Time presentation,1 one I haven’t given in months and that I was grateful to deliver this week, I played hooky and headed to the hotel pool instead.
I felt a little guilty, but willing to gamble that it would be best for me (and the talk) in the end.