Do You Learn From Your Pleasures? It can decide where you could end up in your life!

Being Content in One’s Life is all about Pursuit of Greater Pleasures hidden beyond One’s Perception.
There comes a point in everyone’s life when they want to be good at something. A skill or a passion that titillates once being other than pleasures partaken through the senses. A ephemeral calling from within so intense it makes a person question one’s sole existence. To be useful, to be productive, to be known as a benefactor of society that who is the herald of change. A dance did it for MJ, The Beatles did it through their songs, iphone revolutionized entertainment. The list can go on sprawling to multiple fields. The silver underlining yet remains the same for all of these pioneers. To be more than they already were in the society. By expressing their vision of things can be.
Don’t we all crave the same?
To excel at some task or being recognised amongst the best in a field. To stand besides contemporaries like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk can be the opium few would resist. With the pinnacle of information age this certainly is being made possible throughout the globe. There are self help guides available in the forms of self-help blogs, self-motivating videos, Tips & tutorials elaborating mistakes to avoid on the path to being millionaires, being entrepreneurs, writing bestsellers, becoming YouTube sensation, earning passive income through social media. You have a need and there is a provider out there which will make your dream to finally make a name for themselves in society a reality. Then why isn’t it working for us? Despite being so “information aware” very seldom do we develop the mechanism to do what we love and produce something meaningful in a single day, forget our entire life. It just doesn’t seem to work out; there’s our job(the soul sucker which saps our strength), the household chores, cooking meals and pre-planning for the next day, the necessary beauty sleep to have. In our 24-hrs time, there is hardly anytime left for us to do anything worthwhile. Or is it so?
“It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion” Heraclitus
The paradox of life is that when it comes to our pleasures we always seem to make time to indulge, squeezing every bit of this little ticking devil from our day. We often cut out our meals to binge watch a series in Netflix or meet our better halves, a one night stand with a close friend or a long time pending impromptu reunion. The price seems to be never high. In matters to our guilty pleasures, we are hijacked by our emotions in less than a “heart beat”; as one would put Mea Culpa. And why not? It’s natural one can argue. We live for pleasure. What is else there to do? Enlightened hedonists say,’Why settle for less when there is even a greater pleasure hidden out there!”.
Contrary to a success guru's mantra: Mastering one’s lifestyle is key to being successful, it’s more about fueling one’s quest for greater pleasure. Most of the populace are stuck on not giving up their outdated mode of pleasure. Sensory pleasures in the form of entertainment, food, mating and sleeping are the shackles that hinder in a layman’s quest of greater ecstasies in life. There is no incentive for us losers to accept voluntary suffering for greater rewards. Forget greater rewards, we don’t even question the limitations of our pleasure models we have surrounded ourselves with. Let me disseminate if I sound too cryptic. No one wants to stay where they are: inefficient, impoverished and addicted to their pleasure systems. Everyone wants to blossom their being, have a big bang of experiences through out their limited life spans but are ignorant or too complacent to question their current state. A wall of excuses are always present before us. Responsibilities, Carrier, Loans, Age are some strong but are totally lame when viewed by an aficionado of life. These might reduce one’s pace to move forward but can’t stop a person. So, what stops a person to be more blissful. You know the answer just ask your self.
The reason? Not moving the other foot in front of them one step at a time.
Yup! They don’t want to move on to a newer form of pleasure. Let me jog your memory: Which of your last experience was the most difficult to let go? You might say smoking, alcoholism, womanizing etc., etc. but for me it was video games. Yes, that sounds childish but you have my cardinal sin, my weak moment before you. Surely, yours a much better excuse to get stuck than mine. I used to play 10–12 hrs straight every day skipping my pre-College coaching and even the IIT entrance exams to be the most important character of fantasy worlds. I lost a lot in those years. Regret nothing, but the the huge financial loses my father had to incur. Looking back now, I feel the inability to learn from the limitations of pleasure I was drowning in led to the wastage of four years of my life. Mind you I only played games and did nothing else, no intoxication or debauchery on my part. It was purely my inability to handle pleasure. So yes, you have it the only way stopping me was my totally messed up sense of PLEASURE MANAGEMENT.
We all undergo the fight with this pleasure beast in our day to day lives. To be exact, we have been going at it since our childhood. We wanted to play but had to study as a kid. We wanted to party in our youth but had to study for SETs or other similar entrance exams. Later now, when in corporate/family life, despite wanting to relive our college days our responsibilities shackle us and we simply can’t quit our jobs.We might label them as being mature or compromise or part of growing up but when we look back there always was one person amidst our contacts who enjoyed the best of both the worlds.
What did he/she do right? Or Where did we go wrong?
I have longed figured it out and I am on my way to my dream life. I will get back to you in the second part of this topic using timeless wisdom of Zen and Yoga sutras to substantiate my theories.
Till then adieu from this Lost Mystic!
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