There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.

Guarding something can quietly replace using it. Attention paid to the body is sensible, and it can also grow until it takes up the very hours it was meant to protect. The trap is that the watching feels responsible, so it is hard to see as a cost. This is not an argument against care; it is a reminder that care is meant to serve a life, not stand in for one.

If you have been careful lately, pick one ordinary pleasure your caution has been postponing, and have it this week. Keep the habits that help. Let them buy you something.