Little Pleasures

Life's little pleasures always come with a price , i could reel off a whole list of things that are not good for us and i can also think of many of my friends and associates who each have something in their lives which if it were suggested to them that they refrain from said "pleasure" because it was bad for them, would fight tooth and nail to retain it with a "It's worth it in the long run" attitude and i guess i would have to put myself into that category.
The obvious one of course is the dreaded "Weed", We all know smoking is bad for us, we all know it is going to shorten our life, we all know the consequences of our actions and yet, we still light up the next cigarette. Ahh you say, but that's an addiction, and i would have to agree with you there, however, many of life' pleasures are addictive.
Drinking, smoking, junk foods, sweets, chocolate, tea, coffee, oh i could go on and on about what isn't good for you and how many of you readers can say, with hand on heart that you do not have a habit of some kind or another that is bad for you. And wouldn't life be boring without them.
On the other hand, there are things in life that are good but unless you are very dedicated to your own personal cause, many of them are a tough nut to crack, usually requiring strength of character on the part of those concerned to begin, practice and maintain such a routine. But hey, lets be honest here... bad is good, and i for one am not about to give up my little pleasures just because they might not be conducive to my health and well being. Why not, because i like them too much.
At my time of life, when i am beginning to feel the pressures of an ill spent youth catching up on me (oh it was ill spent, believe me) i could so easily say that if only i hadn't etc etc..... but then again, if i hadn't, would i be the person i am today, i doubt it. We mould our lives from a young age, finding out what is and what isn't to our liking and no amount of being told that something or other will come back to haunt us in later life is about to stop us. Late night clubbing, drinking, casual sex, kinky sex even... all adds to the spice of life and no matter how bad it might seem, nothing, is going to stop us mere mortals from having a look see at what Mr Adam and Miss Eve had to look at, (damn snakes) Now, for me, all i can add to that is... i wish i had taken a look earlier cause boy oh boy, what have i been missing all these years.
Funny thing to add here people, Yes i smoke, (far too much as it happens) but i don't drink, nor do i go out a great deal, i am also a vegetarian, i draw the line at some things, for personal reasons but i would never ever think to suggest that my way is the right way. All i try to do is balance some of the bad things in my life, with some of the good in the hope that in the long term, i come out of it all on a fairly even keel, with the scales about balancing, or teetering on a relatively horizontal plane. Yeah, i know..the bad will always be bad and the good will always be good, but the way i see it is, if one bad thing can be balanced against one good thing, i am doing OK as a general rule of thumb.
And what about those naughty habits... well, the usual ones are ok, they are the sort of mainstay of our lives but i have to add one or two to the usual list of bad'uns here.. for example.... pain !!
Have i mentioned that i am a pain slut, (means i enjoy it way way too much for me own good) The trouble is, that the more i get, the more i want, its habitual, addictive, from being a want it has moved to become a need in me and i find that if i go for any length of time without my "fix" well..the saying that "Hell has no fury like a woman... who hasn't had her fix" or even a PMT female....doesn't hold a candle to me. Same goes for subspace, that place we get to via the rush of endorphins ( naturally induced morphine based drug) , i need now, and the more i get, heck... i am addicted and here i have to say... i am not about to give up that.. not no way, no how.

There is no proof that any of the lifestyle activities we are now involved with are bad for us, nothing we do could be said to have any detrimantal physical effect on either of us, there are the obvious dangers of going over board with some of the techniques used in the lifestyle, but MG and i play very safely and everything we do is mutually agreed upon before the outset, thats where the "Consensual" bit comes in and as they are all, in there own way, pleasurable, i see no harm, long or short term in any of them. Sure, the odd bruise, or sore bits here and there, but none that are long standing or that will cause permenant damage. Thats isnt how we do things. Apart from habit forming, which seems to be the case with many of lifes little pleasures, as originally stated, we see no reall reason why we should not continue with our chosen part.
Only trouble is, like so many nawty things in life my little pleasure's have become a necessity now, i think that if i were to try to give up some of the things i have found over the past couple of years, i would be lost. This way of life that has taken me 46 or my 49 years is what i have been searching for and now i have found it, i dont think i could ever go back to the way it was before i found D/s... so i guess i am here for the duration.