Panacea

An unspoken and common question in these times:

"How can I achieve reliable, unending comfort, while I retain the power to change and achieve anything I desire, and the lifeforce to continue to derive pleasure and joy from it?"

A present counter-question comes: "How do we know that pleasure and joy derive from the fulfilment of one's desires?"

"By experience".

"So is the world a vast field of Pacman-food dots (of pleasure/satisfaction), and our purpose to maximise our score? Are the dots the source of the pleasure/satisfaction?"

"Not the source, but the catalyst that triggers the reactions within to feel them. The 'money' that can purchase 'the goods' within us, so to speak".

"What if you could farm and cultivate these nourishments yourself?"

"Then the acquisition and search for external fulfilment becomes unnecessary. But is that realisable?"

"Maybe. The parts are all there. Pleasure and satisfaction are not present in the objects and fulfillments outside. They are the relief felt upon the resolution/dissolution of the discomfort of a desire"... "Perhaps we do not need to scratch as much if we find and treat the causes of the itch. Like skin rashes".