True Pleasures

Pleasures have often been things that brought a person eminse joy. I'm talking about sex, food, video games, comics, travel you name it. We have all found pleasure in one of those areas and some of us in many.  what is do I find pleasureable is a question I have never before thought to ask myself. It really never dawned on me until I started reading Eat, Pray, Love. I realized I enjoy many things but to just truly take pleasure in them had escaped me. How  could a person so open to new things and  the  world around her possible miss out on knowing what pleasured her and was pleasing. When had I really esperienced it or hell at this stage in the game had I ever. Had I found pleasure in any of the area I just spoke of.. I had to think, look back over my life and wonder. Thankfuly I did not have to do this for long.


My first real pleasure was not sex or even food it was Freedom. Well duh you live in America of course. I hate to blindside yall but even here we are not really free.not the freedom I am talking about. While I was in the navy stationed on board the U.S.S. Flint is where I had that pleasure..

we where out to sea and hauling but to someplace I can't remember now but we where going fast enough  with or against the wind that you could feel it push against you. Now what made me do what I did I have no idea. I leaned in against the wind and I just let go. There I was relying on the wind to hold me knowing full well we could turn at any minute and I would bust my ass. I laughed with such joy and pleasure that the people  on the level below the signal bridge looked up to see what was going on.

 As the wind held me I had no fear, no preconceived notions, no worries nothing I was free and floating on the wind like the birds I often now admire..That monent has hung  with me and gave me the greatest pleasure and  the best way I can describe it is  well hell I can't but the one thing that comes close is the music from the song Clocks by Cold Play the first time I heard that song it brought to mind that day. yeah that songs on my Touch.

others are a black bug with a red X on its back no clue what it was but my first born at age five insisted we had to watch it cross the road. I was rushing and going to miss the bus but he would not move. I gave in and watched. He taught me the Pleasure of slowing down to see the amazement in all thing even those as small as a bug.

I have spent many morning before work walking around and going to Barnes and Nobles but there have been two morning I had that where just sheer bliss. I went to pick up my Glamor Shots  yeah  I got some sweet pics from there. Anyway that morning I got a Black and white Frappalate from Coffe Beanery in Patrick Henery Mall.

I had one before and loved it but that morning I could feel the  whip cream and taste the choclatete  as I licked it off my finger and dam was it good I mean decadent good. On top of getting pretzal bits and a cool new neclace made of blown glass and sahaped like a snake I felt like I was walking on air.

Before those moments snuck up on me and slipped away now I look forward to fully experiencing each and everyone and I  Do.