Yet another instinct of humans comes to my mind and that is 'seeking pleasures' after the two most vital instincts of survival and reproduction. Another human instinct, I discussed earlier is curiosity.
'Seeking pleasures' takes the humans to 'essentialism' which means identifying essence of something as pleasurable. For this, we bother little about what a thing really is but take it as what we think about it and what value of it provides us pleasure. For example, we take sex-play as a media of getting pleasure without considering its bitter aspect of impregnating the women whose pains she is to bear for nine months and may be later for the whole of her life.
Most of the human pleasures are found accidentally by our actions of finding something else. It works like scientific developments most of which are invented/discovered accidentally while trying to research something else. Once in my home, I found an old photograph of a small boy and my mother told me that the photograph was of my boyhood. I got immense pleasure out of it and preserved the photograph for a long time, although I could not identify anything in the photograph looking like me.
Odd or non-routine things also provide pleasures to us at least for the time-being. If we have not seen a thing before, we may have no relationship with it, but we enjoy seeing it because it has not been a part of our routine existence. This means that for seeking pleasures, we try to run away from our realities. A tiny black mole on a woman's face is considered to be a beauty spot although it exists there as a skin abnormality which we never accept.
So, most of our pleasures emanate from our being irrational. For example, out of our two clothes having the same applicability, durability, sobriety and sophistication, we enjoy wearing one that had cost us more. This, in essence, means that we are made to pay for our pleasures and we do it with pleasure.
It is noteworthy here that pleasure is different from happiness. A pleasure is most often time bound while the happiness is immortal essence of life. A thing seen for the first time may provide us immense pleasure, but seeing it regularly may prove boring. Pleasures emanate from our superficial sensory perceptions while happiness is a matter of thinking process.
Most of the human pleasures are found accidentally by our actions of finding something else. It works like scientific developments most of which are invented/discovered accidentally while trying to research something else. Once in my home, I found an old photograph of a small boy and my mother told me that the photograph was of my boyhood. I got immense pleasure out of it and preserved the photograph for a long time, although I could not identify anything in the photograph looking like me.
Odd or non-routine things also provide pleasures to us at least for the time-being. If we have not seen a thing before, we may have no relationship with it, but we enjoy seeing it because it has not been a part of our routine existence. This means that for seeking pleasures, we try to run away from our realities. A tiny black mole on a woman's face is considered to be a beauty spot although it exists there as a skin abnormality which we never accept.
So, most of our pleasures emanate from our being irrational. For example, out of our two clothes having the same applicability, durability, sobriety and sophistication, we enjoy wearing one that had cost us more. This, in essence, means that we are made to pay for our pleasures and we do it with pleasure.
It is noteworthy here that pleasure is different from happiness. A pleasure is most often time bound while the happiness is immortal essence of life. A thing seen for the first time may provide us immense pleasure, but seeing it regularly may prove boring. Pleasures emanate from our superficial sensory perceptions while happiness is a matter of thinking process.
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