‘What is this thing with Hedonism?’ I asked him.
He took something out of the fridge and walked back to the stove.
He was cooking.
I was sitting on a little stool, a glass of red wine was on the table.
‘Well, it is more than a lifestyle, it is also a philosophy’, is what he responded.
He stood in front of the stove now.
I was still sitting on the little stool.
‘I didn’t know that’, I thought to myself.
Not that I knew it was also a philosophy, but it felt more normal to me for it to be a lifestyle instead of a philosophy.
‘It is about finding ultimate pleasure’, he continued.
I took my phone and googled what it meant.
Not that I didn’t believe him, but more that I wanted to find out more about it.
Being a sagittarius I am always open to learning.
It is not just a curiosity, more a way of living, that keeps me going.
A fuel of life.
‘Hedonism is both a philosophy and an attitude toward life. In philosophy, hedonism is a doctrine within ethics, with the central assumption or proposition: pleasure is the highest good. Examples of pleasure include love, joy and ecstasy’.
That was one of the descriptions on google.
I was thinking about my own reference.
As far as I heard and ‘knew’ about Hedonism from the things I have read and seen about it.
It would always come across to me that it was mainly about getting pleasure out of sex.
Orgies, sex parties, perhaps even the use of drugs involved.
It made me think.
I don’t know if what I know and how I perceive Hedonism is really connected to the initial meaning of this philosophy and lifestyle.
Should the ultimate pleasure in life be connected to how we perceive Hedonism at the moment?
Is this really what Hedonism is?
And is it what it should have become?
Aren’t we all looking for the ultimate pleasure in life?
Is what I was thinking.
For some it is marriage, for others that dream job.
That new phone we have been waiting for. The coffee we drink on Sunday mornings. That trip to Starbucks. The paper we read. The music we listen to. The present we received for our birthday. The becoming of a mother.
Is this ultimate pleasure of life really different for all?
Or is the ultimate pleasure of life, not just life itself?
I was wondering.
Aren’t we all just Hedonists?