But why?

Boohya… Desire

I for one cannot think of anything better than pleasure. Can you?

Don’t you just love it when your body is stimulated by something? Look at how many adrenaline junkies, including myself, are out indulging their habits.

Pleasure is really deep down what everyone wants. Whether it’s from food, adventure or sex we all dive head first to get what pleases us the most. This is not crime of course, because it is simply a law of nature; we cannot change it without crossing the line of masochism (and that is frowned upon in most countries).

“Why do we desire pleasure so much and why are we told that pleasure is wrong?” are questions that stem in my mind.

First off, what really is pleasure? ——» Your body reacts to a stimulus via “feel good” hormones.

Basically, the human body has a bunch of chemicals inside it that when they are told, by the brain, it gives us stimulation, and how the mind perceives these reactions are what we call “emotions” (the chemicals are called “hormones”).

Depending on our DNA, we all have different responses to different kinds of stimulus i.e. emotions.

So pleasure comes from emotions? Yes and no. There are two different kinds of pleasure; Emotional pleasure and passionate pleasure. Each of these is important to our lives. The emotional pleasures can be controlled and mostly result from irrational feelings; however, passionate pleasure is that part of us that can’t be controlled (at least without drastic depression) and fuels our feeling of purpose and passion.

Humans cannot live without some sort of purpose and passion (usually one and the same) without depression or bitterness setting in. It is because these are desires, not just emotional responses. Desires are what make us unique and creative.

We are always on a course to seek, find, and consume all the desire that we can! It’s like we are on auto pilot! Desire (or love) music?- Than your magnetically drawn to it. Desire reason?- You can’t help but to ask why. All these are planted into the deep functions of our lives and make us feel most passionately pleased when we indulge.

All that to say this: Desires are what emotions come from, desires give us purpose through passions, and desires are what give us most extreme long lasting pleasure.

If Desire = Passion, Passion = Love, and love is created through intimacy, then maybe there is more to this whole “relationship” thing.

Until next time,

-M. R. Fox