Screwtape Letters 1

"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? Even if a particular train of thought can be twisted so as to end in our favour, you will find that you have been strengthening in your patient the fatal habit of attending to universal issues and withdrawing his attention from the stream of immediate sense experiences."
I find that when i spend time playing video games instead of studying, or when I browse the internet instead of read my Bible, that i become much less happy. I can function well, but my head isn't clear, and i lose motivation. The days that i spend time thinking and studying-- it doesn't matter what-- i feel much better about myself, and it becomes easier to read my Bible consistently and pray more often. It actually saddens me to see so many people stuck in this rut of irrelevant, unimpassioned living. I wonder if they know what they're missing out on. The beach is hundreds of times better than the sandbox (i would have said infinitely, but this is only a metaphor, and this metaphor doesn't extend quite that far).