girldetective

Roachboy: So the goal is the doingness of the piano, the creative aspect. I understand that. However, what drives you to continue to play the piano and to listen after? Isn't it the prospect of creating for happiness, or someone else's happiness? Isn't that the effect that you're striving to cause over and over? Kind of like what I imagine cocaine is like? (Your description of playing sounds suspiciously orgasmic.)

Baraka-Guru: This has become somewhat of an obsession over the last 12 hours or so, as loathe as I am to admit it. I certainly must know how to figure it out, but there is something I am missing, a viewpoint I'm not taking, a simple definition I don't know, a mistake I am making, or I am simply an idiot. I'm not sure yet. We'll see.

Crompsin: Maybe. But, what if we seek happiness and collect others/things for our own enjoyment, satisfaction, comfort, help, and so forth. What if they are the by-products of our search to feel that emotion. In addition, doesn't an altruistic act justify as bringing some aspect of happiness (whether it be comfort, lack of hunger, peace, etc) to oneself or to the recipient? Again, am i messing the emotions up, such as comfort vs happiness?