…. “Oh,” she said, shaking her head over our shared bread basket when I told her about my lost year. “Picking who you want to share your life with — not just dudes, but friends — is the most powerful thing you’ll ever do.”
Baumeister tells us that when we are in an energy-deprived state, we feel our emotions more intensely than at other times. This is what a craving is. When we are emotionally vulnerable, our attraction to the visceral joy of candy is far more intense than it is at other times.