is pleasure happiness?

So many times we dedicate significant amount of energy of our life running behind pleasure. I even remember an ex-colleague who felt that the ultimate existence would be to get plugged into a machine that would give him all the pleasure he needed. I said boy, they’ve already made a movie on that called the Matrix which he hadn’t watched yet (was referring to the first one and not the trilogy)

There’s no denying this very strong deeply rooted assumption in my own mind – in fact almost an absolute conviction – that happiness and pleasure are strongly related… But still this question lingers (maybe somewhat annoyingly! 😉 )

JK’s words encourage the question…

‘And pleasure goes with fear. I don’t know if you have watched it. It’s the other side of the coin.

But we don’t want to look at the other side.’