It is a road that many have gone down only to find disappointment and sadness and frustration and even tragedy. Many have had a look up this avenue and have not found what they were expecting.
In that Old Testament book, Ecclesiastes, at Chapter 2 and verses 1 to 9 - King Solomon begins to think in his heart, that he will test pleasure and try - that he will pursue pleasure - that he will experiment with various forms of pleasure.
Surely Solomon would find satisfaction by going down this road.
There is a big difference between wanting to give up and actually giving up. Sometimes we run into someone after a long time and we are shocked at their appearance. They appear to have given up on themselves. They don’t care about their appearance and maybe they have let themselves go in many ways. Giving up can creep up on us over a period of time. The end result is not pretty. It starts with giving into those habits that we know are bad for us. Maybe we start eating foods that we had given up in the past. Our frequency of exercise goes down, perhaps our alcohol consumption goes up. Our ability to deceive ourselves is truly amazing.