"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
― Mark Twain

Ah, Willpower

We hear a lot about karma and our spiritual well-being these days, with the word 'fitness' becoming more popular. But wait, when was the day that fitness wasn't popular? It's always been out there; all we ever needed to do was reach out and take part in it. There would be a lot more healthy people in the good ole USA if it weren't for one curse word: 'willpower'.

I can say I am nowhere near being fit. But I can be, by just listening to my own 'willpower' and being more of a friend to it. Friends stick together, and when one suggests something that makes sense, we listen to it. We heed that willpower's voice commanding us to control our urges.

Willpower is a strange thing, though; it drives who we are and what we do and just seems to impede anything fun. Just look at eating pizza: you want to eat another piece, but your 'willpower' jumps in and says NO! Darn that 'willpower' sits over there and shuts up; I'm grown, and I'll do whatever I want.

Now we get on our favorite set of scales the next day, and when we look down, we say, out loud, I should never have eaten that extra piece of pizza if I only had the 'willpower' to put it down. Darn, that 'willpower' I never listen to it.

We all need a ... friend, don't we?