 Epicure tells us that we need to achieve this pleasure. What's worth pursuing are the necessary desires and necessary desires alone. Now given his view that what's worth pursuing is pleasure, it's probably pretty easy to see why you shouldn't pursue the groundless desires. I mean forget about that. It doesn't give you pleasure anyway. But why only the necessary desires as opposed to the rest of the natural desires. After all they do produce pleasure, don't they? And I think what Epicure's is kind of getting at here, he doesn't use this language, but what he's getting at here is that there's this kind of law diminishing returns with natural desires and you are really just to maximize the amount of pleasure that you can have. And again he's not quite a consequentialist at this point, but it's getting close right. To maximize the amount of pleasure that you have, well just pursue the necessary desires. That's what you have to have anyway and you get the most out of it. So what does it mean by this? Well think about a lot of the natural, merely natural desires that we have out there. Okay so things like you know food is a necessary desire sure. But we're talking about you know the macronutrients, protein fat, carbs in the right proportion. You only need so much. Right the amount of calories that you need. You know for the average person right, if we've all heard this number thrown around the average person needs 2,000 calories a day. Okay. I'm not here to dispute that that number or anything. Well let's just take that as a given. That's what you really need and you need it really in certain intervals. So you get all 2,000 calories in one meal. Then this is really not best right. It's best to have it kind of spread out this sort of thing. And the foods that give those sorts of necessary nutrients and you know not too much, not too little sort of thing are things like vegetables, some fruits, legumes, water, and you know some grains. Like quinoa is amazing for this. But beyond that, that's what you need right. That's it. Something like you know a you know I don't want to name any particular restaurant or any particular fast food chain. But your average meal combo at one of these fast food chains is sometimes two, maybe as high as three. You know it's probably close to two times, maybe not two, but close to two times the amount of calories or the various, at least you know at least the amount of calories that you need for that day is sometimes more. Sometimes more between the sandwich and the you know the sandwich and the fries and the soda right. That's way more than you need. And the reason why you get that is for some kind of taste right. It's for the taste of the thing. But you know what happens if you don't have that anymore. Right. I mean Americans are kind of famous for this. We have really terrible as in for us terrible as in for fast food. A lot of the nations you know they taste this like this is like this is coated in salt and fat. How can this possibly be good? And you know we're kind of ruined for you know actual taste. You know we you know we think of salt as the seasoning for meals and you know there's a lot out there right. So these natural desires that we have we try to fulfill them. It's way more than we need and then we miss them man. If you have really good food and suppose it's not just fast food. Suppose it's genuinely a quality crafted meal right. If you don't have it then you after you're used to it then you miss it. And these quality crafted meals you got to work really hard to get to them and either you're cooking it yourself. Which is you know if you're going to have a quality crafted meal you better cook it yourself. Or you're paying somebody else to do it in which case you're going to be working a lot of hours to do that. I mean if you're if you're having a really quality meal for one person depending on what it is. I mean you can spend as little as you know 40 dollars and as much as 100 to 150 dollars for a single meal. And how much time you have to work to do that. I mean think about what Epicure's has given us here. What you need what's worth pursuing are the necessary desires and nothing else. This is a life free of a lot of distractions. Now friends shelter food water simple food simple water pleasures that you could find right outside your door contemplating the nature of the universe of reality. Not necessarily to have the answer to have yet to beat your intellectual opponents into the ground and prove your intellectual superiority just the pursuit is worth it. To wonder to experience the joy of asking the question and thinking of different answers with your friends. No external pleasures unnecessary pleasures unnatural natural pleasures that require you to do so much extra. And they're not worth I mean why go after the blockbuster movie that costs millions and millions of dollars that you have to work so many hours to pay for. Now why go after that when you can go outside. There's no plot holes out here just butterflies on flowers still stillness of the mind a cool breeze and a nice trail. Why put yourself through everything else that causes stress that demands your resources your time your attention and you have to compete with everybody else for it. Why go after that when you can simply use your mind to think about the world and use your heart to be with your friends. Use your yeah use your body sure exercise sure you know just to keep up keep everything moving to have health and ease of the body and mind and heart without having to put yourself through the ringer just to get the latest meaningless fashions and cars and prestige.