enjoying oneself

There's a specific air and expectation about summer in Greece — it's essential to be by the sea, enjoying oneself.

Even more so, they believed that life was something to be suffered through with grim determination, and that enjoying oneself was almost always inappropriate.

A comprehensive knowledge of something like Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear,’ after all, was indicative of multiple afternoons spent at the playhouse idly enjoying oneself in the company of common citizens, right next door to bearbaiting and brothels.”

“There is nothing wrong,” he wrote to himself, “with enjoying oneself simply, like a boy.”

Sure, getting out of town is always a good time — and there’s no harm in enjoying oneself — but it’s also an investment.