Someone told me I was genuine yesterday. Until he explained it, I thought it was just one of those words people use without any real meaning attached to it, sort of how “authentic” is bandied around. I think I agree, now.
If it means that I live my life according to my own rules, that I follow what I love and do only what is real and important to me, then I am genuine. If it means that I can not be a hypocrite and pretend to be someone I am not, then I am genuine. If it means that what I say, I truly mean, then I am genuine. And if it means that my state changes from moment to moment and that I stay true to it, then I am genuinely genuine.
So I love only until it has run out. I study only until I no longer want to learn. I play, I work, I live, only as long as it has a place in my present.
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probably as genuine as newly blonded hair... ;-}
But, but, but... If you only look to satisfy your immediate desires, you're not headed anywhere. Is life just about doing what is pleasurable? Unless, of course, you take the grander view that in the present you do what you most want to do, including sacrificing happiness in the here and now for a greater good later on.
Life is made up of moments and if I make each moment the most it can possibly be - guess where that leads me.
If everyone did exactly what they wanted to do in an isolated moment of time, it would be absolute pandemonium. We would be like little children with no concept of consequence or repercussion. Seizing the day cannot preclude the realization that there are most likely many more days to come.
If that were not the case, then you could eat whatever you'd like whenever you'd like to eat it. Every time you pass up something unhealthy, you're trading present pleasure for the expectation of future benefit.
It's more than that Kris - For me to feel that a course of action is good for me I do look ahead at the repurcussions. In life there are always many choices - I just avoid the ones that force me to put off pleasure (if that's what you want to call it), and instead choose one that makes me happy but also ensures that the future will not be overly taxed by it.
hedonism: pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasure of the senses (Dictionary.com)
LOL - and WHAT pray tell is wrong with THAT???
doesn't everyone do what they truly want to do? it seems to me that the choice of denying oneself an obvious pleasure or material good, is born from a stronger desire for something else, for example, to stay guilt-free. so really the person wants at the end of the day, everyone chooses to do what they really 'want' the most. pandemonium? possibly.
Hmm I love the idea behind this website, very unique.
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