Let me ask you a quick question:
"If you could live 10 years of your life in full bliss - no pain, no worries, no worries - just pleasure, but eventually no memory of this maddening happiness - would you wind up on this, would you did they do it?"
According to Aristotle, the answer would probably NOT be! One of the greatest philosophers, no doubt he says, that true happiness comes first and foremost from the growth of our inner self and the development of the best possible option of ourselves, not from the momentary satisfaction.
Otherwise, everything we have as immediate enjoyment and pleasure in life, which is short-lived - does not develop us as a person and does not bring anything worthwhile ahead of time! In a sense, the above scenario is like a description of someone who is fucked by life or enveloped in oblivion. Someone who tries to escape the pain, eagerly seeking temporary bliss.
But in the long run such actions, such behavior can not bring you joy from real, real life, especially in the long run.
The inevitable life of tides, giving us the necessary insights and exciting experiences, in turn, helps us to grow up and have the opportunity to know more about who we are and to understand more about what we like and who we really love.
Aristotle has a wonderful quote related to this topic:
"We live in deeds, not in the years, we live by our thoughts, not by our breaths, we live through feelings, not through figures. We must rely on time not through the insoles of the clock, but by pulsing our hearts. Lives one who thinks, feels and works the best."
By intuition, I feel that what Aristotle was trying to say is that life is built on tides, tides and dips.
There is no such thing as an infinite flow of bliss or pain.
Unfortunately, life can sometimes be felt like outflow, outflow, outflow, short tide, and outflow. But every tide always gives us the opportunity to reflect on new thoughts, richly flavored with the taste of new emotions.
Of course this also applies to tides. The more varied scents of life that we have to try anyway make it taste more interesting, supple, educational, more experienced and stronger.
A life in which we really will be.
In line with this theme, Aristotle believes that the highest form of knowledge is insight, a true deep, long-lasting insight into things.
Because it is the only knowledge that leads to growth - and it develops us in our highest potential, which in turn leads to our true happiness.
For this reason, Aristotle believed that the reason why so many people are unhappy, desperate and unhappy, is that most of them clutched silly, confusing and ephemeral " pleasure of happiness ," which he said was nothing more than a simple , immediate and momentary satisfaction of our body or ego. According to Aristotle, " happiness " is what matters to the search for long-term growth for oneself as a prosperous individual, not simply to indulge in one-time bliss.
Well, what will you choose : 10 years of endless pleasure, remember nothing after that or ... .. anything else, something completely different?