He took something out of the fridge and walked back to the stove, where he was cooking.
I was sitting on a little stool, a glass of red wine was on the table.
‘What is this thing with hedonism?’ I asked him.
‘Well, it is more than a lifestyle, it is also a philosophy’, he responded.
He stood in front of the stove, I was still sitting on the little stool.
‘It is about finding ultimate pleasure’, he continued.
I didn’t know it was also a philosophy, it felt more a lifestyle to me.
I took my phone and googled what it meant, 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, which keeps me going.
A fuel of life, so to say.
‘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’.
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 it was mainly about getting pleasure out of sex.
Orgies, sex parties, perhaps even the use of drugs involved.
It made me think.
What I know and how I perceive hedonism is this 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?
Aren’t we all looking for the ultimate pleasure in life? I was thinking.
I believe for some it is marriage, for others a dream job.
That new phone we have been waiting for, the coffee we drink on Sunday mornings.
A trip to Starbucks, the paper we read.
The music we listen to, the present we receive on our birthday.
Is this ultimate pleasure of life really different for all?
Or is the ultimate pleasure of life, life itself?
I was wondering.
Aren’t we all just hedonists?