random philosophy attack!

[pfiddy]

The secret to enjoying anything fully seems to lie in not needing it. If you're not confident you can do without it, you'll spend the whole time you do have it worrying about how to keep it. Which, ultimately, you really can't anyway.

Comments

[whitemage]

Yes! This is so very important, but I forget it so often.

[foolmonkey]

I don't need this crap from you!

Which, in turn, makes it very enjoyable.

::giggle fit::

[pfiddy]

hehe, and there we have a nice demonstration of the corollary about silliness being the ultimate expression of wisdom :-D

Re: ::giggle fit::

[foolmonkey]

In that case, I submit a great source of wisdom: The Internet.

http://stardrugs.ytmnd.com/

[onesandzeros]

Allong those same lines, when you don't have it you spend your time wondering how to get it and being sad you don't have it.

[omega697]

I'm going to try to temper this fairly absolute statement.

If you don't think you need something at all, you might take it for granted, and not fully enjoy it. Being utterly dependent on something is bad - you quite possibly resent it. However, if you take something entirely for granted, then you aren't really enjoying it.

This is entirely complicated by the fact that the word "enjoy" is semantically very fuzzy.

[pfiddy]

Let me start out by saying i never believe in absolutes...well...make that almost never (=

But a big part of my main point here is that liking something is completely different than needing it. I used to think needing was just a more extreme form of liking, but i've concluded i was wrong about that. And as such...i don't really think needing something is the opposite of taking it for granted. There's some middle ground where you say, "hey, i like this, it's nice...and it may go away at some point, but that's not a big deal."

[omega697]

I agree then.

Needing something is definitely not liking something a lot. :o)