2007-10-17 13:45:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well you could look at it as challenges that we give ourselves. Once those challenges are met we look for new challenges.
2007-10-17 13:51:02 · answer #1 · answered by Supai 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like Nietzsche said, we humans are animals who place value on things...And such value depends on utility: if a thing gives us pleasure, or satisfies one or more of our needs, including our quest for power in order to survive and be considered one of the fittest (better adapted to life and the environment and, therefore, desirable as a mate and companion), then that thing will have some degree of value to us...Nevertheless, one cannot crave that which one already has, so once we get what we crave, we stop craving it, and we lose interest because we take it for granted...
Do you want to sleep the morning after a good night sleep?
Do you care about food after a meal in the same way you cared about it before such meal ??? Experience says no...
2007-10-17 20:53:58 · answer #2 · answered by nicknamedforprivatereasons 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fact that we cant get it makes us need it.We are determined to get what is "forbidden" or just plain impossible.Once we get it we lose interest because there is nothing exciting about it.Theres not reason we cant get it and we dont have to work hard to prove anything.Wheres the fun in that?
2007-10-17 20:54:02 · answer #3 · answered by Beka14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to alter your question to, when you get what you want, "you" lose interest! Not "WE" leave me out!
I am still very much in love with me computer and I still want it.
Your answer is simple, just keep on wanting, and don't obtain anything and then you'll be happy, becauce you don't know what you want is more like it.
2007-10-21 18:22:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As soon as the want comes, the happiness is thrown away. To want, really means, I will be happy when I get! Yet the happiness that comes from fulfilling a want, is temporary and when it is gone, what is left is sadness. It's like a dirty trick! Jokes on us!
2007-10-17 21:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only reason we wanted it in the first place was because
we thought we couldn't have it.
We aspire to things we can't have because we are told we can't have them or worse yet, shouldn't want them.
Then when we do something that actually gets us what we
thought we wanted, we find out we really didn't want it in the
first place.
So, be careful what you wish for because you might just get
it.
2007-10-17 21:01:09 · answer #6 · answered by producer_vortex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's another challenge that we have overcome, it after all was not a goal in life... just something that you wanted... a new pair of boots! once you have them you move on to the next thing you thing you want. That hat sure looks good!
2007-10-17 21:03:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are looking for something to make us feel good, to fill a void in our lives...some people use drugs the same way...to kill the pain and be happy.
Money can't buy happiness. Happiness comes from within.
Be happy with what you have and you will be happy
2007-10-17 20:50:44 · answer #8 · answered by ✿❃❀❁✾ Stef ♐ ✿❃❀❁✾ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We like the chase. We love the desire of wanting X not X.
2007-10-17 20:58:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OF COURSE NOT!!!!!
Try thinking that all your life and you will get.....nothing!!!!
That applies to people who have everything. I guess that when someone has "everything" somehow loses its hability to dream, thats all
2007-10-21 19:25:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋