This means that enjoyable things should be performed and enjoyed sporadically, but should not be pursued every waking moment during one’s life. It would thus start losing it’s normally associated value. This means that only participating in fun and exciting activities will start to feel normal and not like something special anymore. While uncommon/rare things will increase in value.

Something that’s common will start to lose its value. It would become “normal” after a while and not something that’s considered special anymore.The aim should be for pleasurable and less fun activities balancing each other out.įurthermore, to reach important, fun goals we will probably have to do some boring, not so exciting things. Likewise, there can be no pleasure without boring, mundane activities in life. Without the less fun activities, pleasure would lose its value.Because the good things don’t last forever. That’s why we need to learn how to embrace the pain of life.Īnd if you currently haven’t yet encountered severe painful experiences, consider yourself lucky and value what you have at the moment. Sooner or later, we will all become the victim of negative and painful experiences. But, knowing that with life comes along suffering counters the notion that life is and should only be fun and pleasurable while at the same time avoiding painful experiences.Įxcept there is no way to avoid all painful experiences. Because we know that pain and challenge lead to growth. It’s not all bad and painful, negative experiences, of course.

And in the end, we will all cease to exist. People get sick, loved ones get sick and die. One of the problems with living hedonistically is that life is inherently painful and tragic since we will all perish in the end.

Opposite of hedonism