If you think you are very smart, most likely you are less smart than that. And if you think you are very dumb, most likely you are less than that, too.
The thing is we tend to exaggerate things a little bit. Also we intend to think of us as possesing better qualities than we do in real. There are always an exception however, everywhere and in everything – including in this very statement itself.
I m just ready to fall asleep but just thought I should put down how happy I have been feeling the past few days for almost everything seem to be falling in places where I want them.
But I can’t be complacent, only feel satisfied to an extent that will motivate me further to achieve things that I am capable of.
I know everybody thinks they are this and that – but in my case I have limited myself way down in the field, so the only way for me is up. But I have to be determined, else will remained in the ground level.
To me happiness is more of a long term and continuous, while pleasure is a short term. Happiness would me, for example, when I help take someone to the bathroom with respect and sense of responsibility, that person eventually feels so thankful at the end. That gives me happiness. Happiness not because someone feels or says thank you to me, but because that person was satisfied by my act of kindness. I will always be able to feel good and happy about how I lended my hand to a person who is in need.
Pleasure on the other hand, lack that sense of long term satisfaction. It is a short term. For instance, drinking alcohol makes some people feel good for that moment. But once that alcohol effect wears off, you come back to normal; that satisfaction/pleasure is not anymore present there. Sometimes I feel like pleasure seems to fall in the negative category.