The mind tends to say that you'll be allowed to have bliss once you get everything sorted out—once you're fit, financially secure, romantically adored, etc. etc. This is just the mind's hot, fun way of torturing you! The truth is you're allowed to experience bliss all the time, whether you're lying in a gutter, getting yelled at by your boss, getting ignored by your date, whatever. Your unwillingness to let yourself have big fat happy pleasure until you get “the good thing” is the very essence of sado-masochistic self-denial. Starting to see how this works?
