Can't Get Satisfied?

     I’m testing a theory here: the first chocolate chip cookie is delicious, the second is not as good, the third - I won’t even go there.     
     Ever notice that’s true about anything we take in with our senses? The first taste, touch smell, sight, or sound are great. Then those sensations either fade or gag us. Which is why Annie Dillard’s conviction makes sense, that relying on my senses to satisfy me “requires more and more” because “the life of sensation is the life of greed.”  ...