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Does having your life's material pleasures constitute as happiness?

How materialistic can things be is a standard we will live by no matter how much we try to sit by and think that we are not.

And by materialistic I do not mean the things we wear. But rather the many pleasures that life can offer in our future to come; money; lust (NOT love); and other 'wants' we can live without.

It is true that without these things we can live a pretty dull life.

But think of it this way; 'we eat to live but we do not live to eat'.

Thus the question is again, in your perspective; does having your life's material pleasures constitute as happiness?