I thought about the future primarily in terms of its potential to bring me more gratification and greater achievements.
"I'm looking for more gratification out of life".
In fact, probably now that they have more skills and life experiences, they would be much more effective and receive even more gratification from the experience.
In the street, Tom runs into Dick, someone he considers, like himself, a "survivor" of a faraway time when life among an attractive stratum of this difficult city offered different, more intense gratifications, in other words when they were young, reckless, possessed of unlimited criminal energy and multiple circles of friends and associates.
Hayden, a sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued narrator, morphs into a reluctant heroine who finds more than intellectual gratification in what one character refers to as an exercise in "revisionist history".
If you were willing (and able) to pay about $1 per scoop in convertible pesos, you could try more flavours and find gratification in an instant, but that would be missing the point.
"In New York there's a demand for more instant gratification and need for instant gratification," he said.
Interestingly, delaying gratification in those experimental situations has more positive implications for girls than for boys.
If cooking isn't on the agenda, more immediate gratification can be found in the freezer cases, which house naan, the tandoor-grilled bread, and traditional dishes like pakoras (chickpea-battered vegetable fritters), saag paneer (spinach with fresh cheese) and aloo gobi (potatoes and cauliflower), as well as nontraditional ones, like Bombay Bites Paneer Poppers.
Rather it is delaying doing something in favor of more immediate gratification even though inaction will probably have negative consequences.
