Which is your priority, searching for pleasure or meaning?

[Ralf001]

2 minutes ago, RSD1 said:

It's probably the beer that's making up for the low calorie intake from food. Not the best type of calories, but it probably prevents you from going into rapid weight loss.

 

Beers would be a 6 pack a week.

Am on holiday, I drink a bottle of JD a day.

lost 80kg last year, have put 20 back on.

[RSD1]

8 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

Beers would be a 6 pack a week.

Am on holiday, I drink a bottle of JD a day.

lost 80kg last year, have put 20 back on.

Wow, those are big swings in bodyweight. Also not that healthy actually to swing so much as you get older. But as your age, it's actually better to be slightly overweight than slightly underweight. It will make you a bit more resilient to illness. But as you know, too much overweight isn't good either.

[WDSmart]

I no longer search for meaning. I just live each day as it comes and enjoy doing that. 

[khunPer]

21 hours ago, sidjameson said:

One school of thought is that a life full of pleasures will never produce contentment. Man needs meaning.

What do the righteous posters of AN have to say?

Me, I prioritise meaning but fall back into the pleasures all too often.

Hasip/hasip – both meaning and pleasure – "The purpose of our lives is to be happy"...

 

[Ralf001]

1 hour ago, RSD1 said:

Wow, those are big swings in bodyweight. Also not that healthy actually to swing so much as you get older. But as your age, it's actually better to be slightly overweight than slightly underweight. It will make you a bit more resilient to illness. But as you know, too much overweight isn't good either.

sorry 2022 I lost the 80,went to hospital... now end of 2024 have 20+.

[Thingamabob]

One doesn't exclude the other. Pleasure and meaning in equal measure seems about right.

[AustinRacing]

Meaningful pleasure I’d say

[Caldera]

On 12/26/2024 at 6:20 PM, sidjameson said:

One school of thought is that a life full of pleasures will never produce contentment. Man needs meaning.

 

There is no "meaning", so pleasure it is.