u/Imaginary-Object-841

Do people actually enjoy things in life, or is it all just to alleviate the pain of existence?

Or are they the same thing?

What makes people get up in the morning with any kind of willingness to participate in life? Observable reality suggests that life has no inherent meaning.....but that's ok I'm told, as one finds their own meaning. But if one looks with an unbiased eye, then objectively life is completely pointless. So are we all just deluding ourselves? We tell ourselves that we live to experience moments of joy and connection. But if you've ever looked forward to anything, you'll know that it comes, then it goes and you're left with a memory that becomes more and more distant. This then becomes a pattern that is repeated throughout one's existence, with long periods of banality and suffering in between, until the moment that is looked forward to is death itself. So I am interested to know what people live for and if they can honestly say they aren't deluding themselves.