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The other day I was in Black Hawk talking to a brother about false pleasures. For those of you that are wondering what is Black Hawk it’s a project in Rockford. More like row houses if you from Chicago but since Rockford not that big they call it the projects. To set the scene it was two brothers and a sister. When I walked up the sister had a blunt in her hand (for those who may not know what I mean she was smoking marijuana) and she put the blunt up and apologized for being disrespectful in front of the Muslims. I told her it was fine because I didn’t fall from heaven either. I began to tell the sister that many of us are not happy so we have to find refuge in false pleasures. She asked me what I meant. So told her that the blunt in her hand was a false pleasure, alcohol is a false pleasure, and even sex is a false pleasure if done inappropriately. One of the brothers, who happen to have a beer in his hand, snapped. He said “I drink because I want to. I’m a grown man and I work hard all week so at the end of the day I deserve a beer or two. And how is sex a false pleasure when God made sex. If it wasn’t for sex you wouldn’t be here.” So today my post is going to be on the difference between happiness and false pleasure.

What is pleasure? Pleasure is defined as the state or feeling of being pleased or gratified. A source of enjoyment or delight; Amusement, diversion, or worldly enjoyment; Sensual gratification or indulgence; One’s preference or wish. What is your pleasure?

I used the phrase false pleasure so I must also define the word false. False is defined as: Contrary to fact or truth; deliberately untrue; Arising from mistaken ideas; intentionally deceptive; Not keeping faith; treacherous; Not genuine or real; Erected temporarily, as for support during construction. Resembling but not accurately or properly designated as such.

So a false pleasure is really something that seems to please us, it seems that we enjoy it, it seems to be our preference or wish, but in reality it is contrary to the truth, and really we have mistaken ideas of this pleasure, and it was made intentionally deceptive to make us believe in its pleasure. I was walking down 87th street in Chicago and they had a billboard that had a picture of a Remy Martin bottle and a guy and a girl kissing and the sign read “Remy Martin now things are getting interesting” and I said wow they really make this stuff look like if I drink it I was have the best time of my life but I knew that it couldn’t be true because I had had Remy Martin before (many times) and that girl nor situation never happen to me LOL. So false pleasures are made deceptive to make us believe they will really make us happy.

What’s your pleasure? This pleasure seeking mentality we have comes from the fact that most of us are dissatisfied. In a world that’s ruled by Satan who can be happy besides Satan. The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that the whole world is dissatisfied right now. In America the politician are failing us, the schools are failing us, the economy is failing us, and every where we look something is failing us and nothing is going our way or the way it should go. But when you re dissatisfied your natural instinct is to seek that which satisfies you or pleasures you. If something is hurting, you immediately seek something that will ease the pain.

Have you ever slammed you finger in the door the first thing you do is start waving your hand back and forth or you might put your finger in you mouth to put pressure on it. Have you ever been burnt by something hot the first u do is run to some cold water on it. But it’s not just us being hurt it’s also us being uncomfortable. Ever been hungry? You immediately look for something to eat. Ever walk into a room and it’s colder then you expected you start holding yourself to keep warm. You start rubbing your arming to make friction because friction causes heat and heat will ease your discomfort. Well so it is with life.

When ever we are dissatisfied, in pain, or just uncomfortable we seek that which makes us satisfied, eases our pain, or makes us comfortable. The Problem is most of either one don’t know what is wrong with us, two we know but to fix it is just too much work or we don’t know how to fix it, or three you are insane. I’m not a psychiatrist but some of us have some deep emotional issues. Maybe we had a messed up Child hood. We were picked on and nobody liked us. Maybe we didn’t have a good father or mother. Maybe it’s deeper. We may have been molested or raped as a child. But all of these things affect us if they are not dealt with properly. So you may wake up every morning mad at the world and have no idea why. Everybody gets on your nerves and everybody makes you mad. Nothing makes you happy.

These are the people that I’m talking about have no idea why they are mad. Many times they are mad at some traumatizing experience, but they have pushed it down so deep in themselves that they don’t think about it consciously but subconsciously its shows. An example is in my education class they teach us indicators that a student has been molested. They say they are children, who hate for you to touch them, or they are over sexual in talk and actions with other students, they also have a deep self hatred. So consciously you’re not mad at anyone but subconsciously you are mad at the world and it shows in your actions.

The second person is the person that knows why they are mad but changing is too hard. This is those of us who hate our job but won’t get another one. Those of us who hate our “baby mama” or “daddy” but know we got to put up with them for at least 18 years. This is those of us who feel like we let life pass us by because we made some stupid mistakes. We start to feel like we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place and we have no idea how to fix the mess we’ve gotten into. And the last one I said is insane. The definition of insanity is just doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.

So when we find ourselves in a situation like this, where we are stress out, where do we turn “stress Relievers”. The cigarette, weed, the liquor, the sex, and even food. These are all things that give us pleasure and comfort for the moment. The thing that makes it a false pleasure is the fact that it doesn’t last long. It’s like when you give a baby a pacifier it will keep them quite for a second but after a while reality sets in.

Let’s think rationally here for a second. How much pleasure do we really receive from some the things we do? Weed? Weed is that which chokes the life out of the living. So in a garden, a gardener has to remove the weeds otherwise they will kill the plants. So when smoking weed we are really choking the life out of ourselves. Listen to how the Brother talks “I’m bout to get dead“. The brothers who sell it say “I got that kill”. So because we hate the life that we living so much and we are in so much pain we have to stay in a delusional mind, dead, and in an unconscious mind state praying with every puff that our eventual return is sped up. And cigarettes for those of us who don’t know. Recent studies show that every cigarette takes one day off of your life. And some of us smoke a pack or two packs a day. Once again praying for our return to come sooner than later. How much pleasure are you really getting?

Liquor? I use to drink a lot. And living on a college campus I see drinking a lot. It’s crazy that people brag about blacking out, passing out, or not remembering the previous night. Liquor is so poisonous that being drunk is really just your bodying being so poisoned that it can’t function properly. Its shoots straight to your brain cells and begin to make them in-responsive that’s why your speech slurs and actions slow down. It’s the same as when your computer catches a virus. Your body tries to warn you that it’s not natural to you by starting to vomit but we don’t listen. And at the point where you pass out is your body trying to save itself from death and it shuts down so you can’t poison it any more than you already have. Sometimes your body passes out to late and you may get alcohol poisoning. How much pleasure are you really receiving?

The false pleasure that people defend most is sex. Man at this day and age people are losing their virtue on average at 15-16 ( young men keeping your virginity is virtuous too) and really I’m being modest. But if you are not ready to accept the responsibility of sex it is not pleasurable. And most of us are NOT ready to except the responsibility of sex. The Minister Says that for a man sex is Contract that says from the point of my entry I vow to protect, maintain, provide, and basically put up with all the other stuff that come with it (but I’m not going to get deep into that maybe another blog). But most times when sex enters our lives we end up emotionally hurt, physically hurt, spiritually hurt, and morally hurt. Sisters end up with child with no fathers, brother end up with child they can’t take care of, both parties end up hurt, and even the child who is the third party who wasn’t even there when it happens. Ask yourself is the amount of pleasure that come from sex worth the amount of pain you will receive afterwards. Or even worse you get a package you can’t return because you didn’t know the person as well as you thought you knew them. So how much pleasure are you really getting?

In truth I could go on for days about this but the point is this. These things are false pleasure because if you were unhappy before the weed, liquor, and sex you are going to be unhappy after the weed, liquor, and sex. The only thing that you will accomplish is a habit that you can’t kick and a crave that you can’t curve. And more then likely that craving will get bigger. This year you only smoke one cigarette a day, or smoke one blunt, or only drink wine coolers, but three years later you’re at a pack a day, got to smoke in a rotation and a bathroom with the hot water running just to get higher, and you drinking a fifth of Hennessey. They say no high is like the first high. That because first time you actually thought things would get better after getting high then after you sobered up you realized things were actually worse so now u got to get higher the second time to run from the reality of the high before. Just killing your self slowly.

So the Quote I’m going to leave you with is from a book called a better you in 30 days.

“HOW CAN YOU BE TOO WEAK TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, BUT STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP BEARING THE PAIN”?

So I think my next Blog will be on how to break these bad habits. There is a way. You don’t have to be unhappy forever you can change when you u feel like it.

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Peace Bryant