Carpe Diem, Folks

News | Editor | January 1, 2010 at 9:00 am

Are you a procrastinator of pleasure? Then here’s a New Year’s resolution for you: have fun right now. Not just because airlines and other marketers save billions of dollars annually from gift certificates that expire unredeemed but because once you start procrastinating pleasure, it can become a self-perpetuating process and the longer you wait to open that prize bottle of wine, the more pressure there is on enjoying the occasion. Obsession with the ideal grows and and grows until the actual experience can never live up to what we’ve imagined. So don’t be tempted to postpone the things you’re really looking forward to enjoying this year. Enjoy them right now. (Via The New York Times)