How do you eat your piece of cake ?

I feel, everyone goes through this delaying gratification and as we mature our degree of perseverance changes and we grow emotionally and psychologically. Kids are are however less likely to endure or forego anything that amuses them. Like a candy or choc'late or a cake or a gift. They can hardly wait and that goes to show their lack of maturity and thinking power. But then as we grow old this changes for the better. We develop a better control over ourselves and the extrinsic and intrinsic lures. To put it blatantly, we refrain from ice creams, choc'lates and things that we love but as a measure of our diet control. We refrain from so many things actually, which we would have done as a child. Delaying gratification, I feel, is but dependent on how we perceive and made to perceive life as a child. Some kids who are subjected to what-I-want-what-get- syndrome still continue with this as grown ups. In most cases, I find this as disturbing, specially for a person like me, who is much poised and working towards a stern disciplined. On the contrary, I learn from my father and others like him who would forego anything! Yes anything! That requires a a lot of discipline and strength. Even though I am not that extreme, I have always respected people like that who have such a strong emotional control. Another thing I must share with you. Its the recent hype in fund management as in Stock market. There are, as far as my perception goes, two types broadly. The one who invests, sits back and enjoys along term profit. The intermittent bull and bear market hardly perturb them. And there's another group who play this daily gamble(PHATKA). They are happy with short time gain. I know smeone who trades like as in a fish market and gets elated even with a profit of 2-3 rupee! Now that's ridiculous! But then people with different shades and character give dimension to the society and we get to coin terms like delaying gratification and understand the deeper psyche of mankind. smiles...

OK. Why are we looking to pyschoanalyze the way I eat cake alokn? Can't I just enjoy eating it? lol. Seriously though, I think I am someone that tends to mix it up a little and try to keep the icing lasting with each and every bite until the end if possible. So what does this mean then? Am I good in bed or something?

I am like a small kid....LOL! I'll take the lower portion first and then ony will go for icing on the cake...... I believe in cosuming tastier stuff at the end.

I am guilty of that Delaying gratification. I usually do the hard things first or things that I don't like so when I am finished doing it I could enjoy the day in a happier way. see, I am very guilty of that. SO usually my day goes like, when I wake up I do all my chores then after lunch I just sit here in the computer and enjoy doing mylot since all my house hold chores are finished.