An Inconvenient Truth.

Here is a verse from the Gita that pretty much lays it out, but probably wont be too popular.  grin.

“Since enjoyments that are contact-born are parents of misery alone, and with beginning and end, O Arjuna, a wise man does not seek pleasure in them.”  — 5:22

Contact-born means the enjoyments that require the senses and their contact with a sense object (the thing you want to enjoy).  Being parents of misery alone means misery is all they can produce in the long run.  To have a beginning and end means that they are temporary and cannot be fulfilling over a longer period of time.  That a wise man does not seek pleasure in them means stay away from them.  grin.  What to do with your time then?  How about this verse:

“Whose happiness is within, whose relaxation is within, whose light is within, that yogi alone, becoming Brahman, gains absolute freedom.”  –5:24

All your fulfillment lies inside of you already.  Spend the extra time exploring the truth of that statement.

“He who can withstand in this world…the impulse arising from lust and anger, he is steadfast, he is a happy man.”  –5:23

Be a happy person.