A simple pleasure loses something when every occasion must be made special.

Ordinary enjoyment depends on being allowed to stay ordinary. A cup of coffee, a walk, a Friday film: as soon as each one has to be elevated, photographed or improved, it acquires a standard it can fail to meet. Effort creates expectation, and expectation quietly removes the ease that was the whole point. Some things are good exactly at the level of no trouble at all.

Pick one small pleasure this week and do it plainly, with no upgrade attached. Notice whether it is actually worse, or only less impressive.