Space Trilogy 1

“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hman, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing… What you call remembering is last part of pleasure, as the crah is the last part of a poem. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly: it was nothing. Now it is growing into something as we remember it… what it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all days till then – that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it.”

I get the concept, which is that a big part of the good of an experience is looking back on it. I would say, there are times in one’s life where they may look back on a memory of a good time and be sad, therefore not in a pleasurable way remembering it. Not because it wasn’t a good experience but maybe because they were hurt by that person or maybe because they lost that person. I think the most profound experiences of pleasure would be love and joy. It seems to me that looking back at any experience with these involved would be pleasurable otherwise it was not true joy or true love. In a sense I very much agree with the quote, but can see a slight knock to it. In class people discussed an experiences value based on the experiences around it. If you struggle prior to a good experience it makes it all the better and more "worth it". I really resonated with that, every experience has value but that is really made better or worse depending on how things were going before the experience. Also somebody mentioned  the fact that the memory itself is good even though there might be sadness attached to it because of a loss or pain that happened after the fact.