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Why anticipation outshines experience

I feel most alive when I am planning my next vacation but the actual trips never live up to the fantasy I created.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The pleasure-seeking mind can become so focused on future satisfaction that it cannot inhabit present joy.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Pleasure and its examined life?”

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