Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Epicurus coined this beautiful quote when he talked about love. So who is really to blame for taking the pleasure out of life? My mother said "pleasure is where you find it" so maybe we are all to blame for not looking hard enough. It can simply be that sometimes we really do need pain to force us to look ! This has to be the theme for tomorrow !!

In the meantime have to use another quote from Epicurus "The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live". Is there any relationship between foolishness and pleasure ? Thought for the day....

"When you know nothing anything is possible......." (It is not original I stole it from one of those great influencers in my life who I have forgotten) I have to confess I have never had one original thought in my life but somewhere I manage to put the thoughts of others into a new context that can be very satisfying.

It's late, time for dreams and smile in the night of pleasurable things !

Some pleasure about the world today

Well Epicureans can have pleasure in finding who is to blame ! Epicureans believe a moment of pleasure can kill days or even weeks of pain. It is a philosophy that is so much fun but how much pleasure can one get out of someone else's pain? Seems we humans have a real thing about others who are in pain; maybe it is this that drives a world where in fact it seems that some people can only move forward at the expense of someone else ! As long as they are faceless we can all accept it.
But right now I am thinking of a friend who fell in the street twice in succession and I had to laugh for days about it....... Epicureans are human ! Laughter is one of the greatest pleasures for man and we forget to do it. Men who make women laugh are the most successful lovers. It is about time our governments and our politicians gave us laughter and not just bland rhetoric based on patronism and patriotism.
Hopefully voters you can have the last laugh !