A long time ago even children understood this. It’s why Catholics have always fasted.

Cashews are a good perspective-giver for how keenly you’re experiencing life. If you don’t eat carbs for a few days cashews will taste really sweet, because your heightened sensitivity to glucose means your taste buds will more easily identify the small amount of sugar in the nuts. Happiness works the same way, our sensitivity to it depends on the rate at which we’re exposed to thrill. The happiest I’ve ever felt in my life was finally arriving at the Melbourne Assessment Prison in 2012. For about a month prior to getting there I’d been kept in police station cells due to prison overcrowding. I’d eaten only two slop microwave meals per day, had seen no sunlight, hadn’t showered, had no change of clothes and shared a holding cell with seven other detainees. We slept on the floor because there weren’t enough plastic pillows for everyone to make beds out of. It’s actually a “human rights violation” to keep people in those conditions for longer than two weeks, but they just move you to a different police station after your two weeks has elapsed, as a loophole to reset the clock. But after arriving at an actual prison, washing, shaving, putting on fresh clothes and sitting outside eating an apple in the sun, that was easily the happiest moment of my life. You could’ve given me a free Bugatti on a regular day said it’s yours to keep, it wouldn’t have compared to how thrilled I felt eating that apple that day. The point is that without abstinence we don’t truly feel, taste or appreciate anything for what it is. Going without even just for a little while dramatically enhances your experiences, gets more carbs into your muscles and just makes life easier to appreciate. That’s what I was thinking about while eating these cashews.

jewish comedian threatens to sexually assault and strip naked woman for wearing a costume that offends him. One day these people will act like they did nothing to deserve what is probably going to happen to them.