Our Addiction With The Pleasures In Life

We are all addicted to something. Whether it is for good or bad, we should accept that we almost always do it in order to experience pleasure as an after-effect. If we get what we want, we feel pleased and the pleasure we get as a result reinforces the idea of wanting ever more. That mental representation of some desired state will linger in our minds and cause us to direct our energy to realise it.



Life certainly has a funny way of dealing with our addiction in obtaining pleasure. Just when we thought we are smart enough to escape the evil claws of our addictions, we soon realise the resulting pleasure does not last long despite the major events that take place in our lives. We, as humans, have the tendency to focus very much on making changes and it is this ability to adapt that limits our opportunities for very lasting pleasures. We find ourselves quickly conforming to these incoming pleasures that we were once convinced they will bring, only to repeatedly finding ourselves back where we began once they become permanent features of our lives.

 We are constantly being bombarded with information through various forms of media. Our own attempts to step off this treadmill of hedonism can be hard because we instinctively adopt patterns and paradigms created through our modern society. The problem arises when we allow this endless pursuit to drown out our own voices and prevent us from living life according to our own values. Richard M. Eckersley termed it as "Cultural Fraud" where he mentioned the "promotion of images and ideals of life that do not meet human needs nor reflect social realities", but solely for the purpose of the economy.

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