Low morales are like cheap food and drink. When you have a cheap drink it's usually loaded with sugar to compensate for the poor quality. With food it's soaked in preservatives and additives. When you have it, it tastes good at first but quickly loses it's satisfaction and soon leaves you emptier than before, wanting more or feeling sick. A cycle can easily start and then we all wonder why we aren't satisfied with life.
The pursuit of pleasure is an empty life (Proverbs 21:7). Pleasure is here one moment and gone the next. To prioritize our life in gaining pleasure is setting us up for constant dissatisfaction.
Pleasure in itself is not bad the same as money in itself is not bad. But when you make them the ultimate goal for your life then that's when the emptiness grows.
Ever wondered why people spend so much money on high quality foods and drink? They pay twice, three times, four times as much for something when you can get the "same" thing for loads cheaper. And isn't true that the taste of many things that are of higher quality usually need to be acquired to fully enjoy?
Yes, but once the taste is acquired nothing compares to the satisfaction the delicacy brings.
Such is the same with high morales. Though you may "lose" out on many pleasures by choosing not to settle for below grade, the reward is true satisfaction that lasts long after you enjoy its fruits.
For instance, instead of spending your hard earned money on superfluous nights at the bar on weekends, choose to stay in. Save your money for a few months and take that trip that you keep saying to yourself "one day".
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