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Differentiating Happiness and Pleasure

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.