It doesn’t have to be physical pleasure, one can be hedonistic in their pursuit of love or learning, or anything that brings pleasures.

But the key is to challenge the restraints that a society which walks through life miserable in all regards impose upon us. It is the breaking of those restraints where hedonism is found.

I’ve known quite a few hedonists and have a great deal of love and respect for them. In part because I never had the bravery required to truly go that path. And the other part where they find themselves broken, hollowed out, unemployed, or addicted. Or even worse deeply cynical. I’ve lost many friends to the tail end of a life of extremes.

Every hedonists thinks there is some trick to the life that they alone get right, and each of them is wrong and right in their own way.