/lit/ - Literature

>>20249040
I don't think so, I don't remember bringing that up before, but maybe. It's been a couple of months since I lasted posted here.
>>20249048
Yeah I visit /g/ from time to time, they've helped me fix my laptop a few times. And thanks, you too.
>>20249054
You must've seen the un-vacuumed version then.

>>13190093
Pleasure = common, fleeting happiness
Fulfillment = true, lasting happiness

You can have sex and feel pleasure for a night, or you could engage in a healthy long-term relationship with another human being and possibly find fulfillment.

You can smoke a cigarette or a joint and receive your instant gratification, or perhaps you could find fulfillment in pursuing a healthy lifestyle and striving to be the best you can be.

You can receive pleasure when you receive that large paycheck from working that job you despise, but perhaps you could find fulfillment if you love your job & it helps you self-actualize. Alternatively you could find fulfillment by being your own leader and doing what you want actually want to do, but you'll never achieve it by living a life for the sake of impressing other people.

Pleasure isn't intrinsically wrong, and it isn't wrong to feel or want pleasure. But by your logic, since you believe pleasure can be derived from power, you can achieve maximal net pleasure by becoming a CEO of a major business. If that's the case, then why is it that C-suite executives tend to suffer from depression at much higher rates than the average person? Surely they have the means to simply "buy more pleasure".

I'm proud of you for holding off for a whole sentence before lashing out and calling someone stupid, it sounds like your lifestyle is really fulfilling you.