Welcome to Hedonism: Addiction vs. Passion

I welcome you all to this blog.  I am new to blogging and thought that this would be an interesting experience to say the least.  I love to write, however you will notice that I am not to perfectionistic when it comes to my writing as this is just much to painful a task for me. 

Let's begin with some definitions:

Hedonism: "Hedonism is a school of ethics which argues that pleasure is the only intrinsic good.[1] This is often used as a justification for evaluating actions in terms of how much pleasure and how little pain (i.e. suffering) they produce. In very simple terms, a hedonist strives to maximize this net pleasure (pleasure minus pain)." WILKIPEDIA

Addiction: A physiological and psychological need for a substance or activity in order to maintain homeostases.  A need for a substance or activity that produces a pleasure, high, or buzz but that ultimately creates disfunction, loss and poor health in ones life

Passion: A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger
- Ardent love.
- Strong sexual desire; lust.
- The object of such love or desire.
- Boundless enthusiasm (Free Dictionary.com)

All of these words share similar characteristics.  We use these words interchangeably at times  to describe positive things and other times to describe negative things.  Often it is because we are being silly, or we don't know the true meanings of them. 

There is a Hedonic Model in Addiction that we use; I often use because I find it a good working plan for people to learn new ways of coping which minimize their pain and maximize their pleasure in healthy ways.  Sometimes of course it is dependent on the person recognizing that life is full of both pleasure and pain.  We all want less pain and more pleasure, however, on the way to a more pleasureful life or existence many of us will accept the short term pain for a belief that there is a longer term pleasure in the future... This concept often gets people thinking about whether or not it is all worth it.  I intend to document my use of the Hedonic Model more in future blogs, but my goal now is to get people thinking....
1.  What is your opinion of how Hedonism operates within your beliefs and your live?  What are you teaching your children about pleasure and pain?

2.  Do you have addictions?  Do you ever refer to yourself as having an addiction?  If so. what pain are you hiding from?  Or Better yet Have you thought about whether or not this will bring you long term pain or long term pleasure

3.  What are your passions in life?  What are you willing to endure to keep the passion alive in your life?

Feel free to comment.  I hope that people will take the time to think about these questions.  I wonder what you think about the title of the blog?  Did you think this was about me exposing my sex addiction... well sorry, you can ask my husband... you are very wrong...lol but if the thought brought you here... then I hope you stay... maybe someone else will expose something... more steamy than I will...