Difference between Happiness and Pleasure

 

Many people misunderstand between happiness and pleasure, let me clear it for you.

Happiness & pleasure are not the same it's whole different. Pleasure is something which you get from instant stimulation and feel good for a very little time. It's an example of drinking alcohol, cigarette, & eating sweets. When you consume  this you instantly feel very good. You get so excited but here's a draw back, you get extremely  pleasurable for sometimes but then you don't feel good. Many of you have felt not so good after consuming alcohol and sweets. You feel bad instead of good. In the middle level school you might have read about Newton's 3rd law it's kinda the same.

Happiness is something which you instantly don't feel good but after a certain period of time you feel a little good but it doesn't have any drawbacks. You don't feel bad after that.You get happiness by doing your important work earlier, achieving your goal. Have you ever found yourself in that happiest scenario where you did all important or hard work like doing exercise, meditating. All of us have felt that way, you aren't alone. It is real happiness & it feels so good than pleasure

So if we know we feel good by happiness & not by pleasure then why do we even like pleasure?
It's because your brain is made like that. You can get an answer if you see the brain from an evolutionary perspective. Your brain's primary function is to make you and for that your brain doesn't wanna spend energy on doing exercise because it doesn't get benefit instantly. Your brain doesn't care about the long term. Your brain is designed like this if something is easy & don't consume a lot of energy then do it & if something is hard and doesn't have a potential outcome right now then there is no need to do it.  It's just gonna take your energy.

Our ancestor was always living in uncertainty. They don't know whether they'll get food today or not so our brain is designed not to waste energy & it has to make you survive if you don't get food. Right now this is not a situation.We are living in comfort time. As we don't have to haunt for food and we get easily just by sitting in front of the computer.