How good are you at waiting for what you really want? Terribly great at it. Order confirmation: January 15th, 2025, McDonald’s 2909 W Kirby, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Medium Fries, and a Medium Coke. I had just broken my record for most Mcdonald’s orders in 7 consecutive days. Yes, I concede that I struggle to resist bodily impulses–whether that be certain foods, poor habits, or inaction–that have plagued me throughout my life, but these do not speak to the macroscopic approach to certain goals. Or do they? In response to my lower pleasures (as tokened by John Stuart Mill in the famous Utilitarianism ), I have attempted to train myself to reevaluate my immediate goals. Presented through multiple facets of my life, I believe track and field has exemplified these pursuits the most elegantly. Quantifiable. As primal as it may be, track and field is a game of numbers, chasing a numerical value as a measurement of one’s success. In fact, it i...