Pleasures

Things to Ponder:Isn't it funny that during parties, not everybody goes home happy?Isn't it ironic that during celebrations, pleasure is what comes to us and not our happiness?If indeed man is searching for his happiness, why does he settle with the many pleasures that surround him?Is it possible that man has mistakened the pleasures that surround him as his happiness?What is true happiness anyway?And what are "pleasures"?How can we achieve it?Are the pleasures around man not a part of a larger happiness?Who is entitled to point out or distinguish which is pleasure and which is happiness?Isn't happiness relative?Could it be possible that one individual's happiness is merely pleasure to another?If so, what is the characteristic of happiness and what divides it with pleasure?Doesn't happiness bring pleasure?Does this also mean that pleasure brings happiness?My opinion:Man indeed is in constant search for hapiness. With this search man has developed ways into finding these. Through the years, some forms of "happiness" has been reduced to "pleasures". Such forms are of the beastly and earthly "happiness". Things as sex and earthly possessions are the common pleasures that linger in the minds of people today. Having the abundance of these "pleasures", man easily gets distracted from his main quest of happiness. What's more ironic is that the happiness of man he is searching has been always there and very much tangible and could easily be reached by him. This happens when man is blinded by he desires he acquires as he live through his life. His fantasies become obstacles of reaching his happiness.my own idea of happiness:Happiness for me is something that you can't live without. Its more of a need than a want. It usually is very real and reachable and yet due o our misakened ideas, we are not able to grab them. A thing that would make me happy is to be with someone I trully love and care for. That for me is happiness and is sufficient enough to fill my mind and to send me into a utopian world.