Enjoy Pleasure, Avoid Suffering

With all that’s going around us, I thought something about pleasure would balance my recent piece on pain[1]
 
Experiences of pleasure and pain are inevitable. Suffering is optional.
 
Pleasure and pain are part of our lives, and each handled skillfully is an experience that can fuel optimal (happy, healthy, effective) living. Pleasure and pain are doorways to either freedom or dissatisfaction and suffering. You get to choose.