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What are the pleasures of other people?

Name the joys you daily or weekly experience from other people, I strongly and strictly encourage avoiding generalized conveying of experience please, be specific, situate and contextualize, and describe detailed as to provide insight into the joys of experiencing and being with other people.

*bump*, still no replies, shouldn't be too difficult to give one

May we have an insight into VoT, to start the ball rolling?

A shared pleasure is more intensive.

My ex and me we have a phone call almost every night and we exchange some ritualized tendernesses.

I spare you the details because such things always appear silly to third parties.

Walking swiftly up some stairs in free nature and getting out of breath and feeling the blood circulating.

Eating a hot soup consisting of tomatoes and quinoa and then lying down and listening to unpretentious popular poetry set to music.
("come under my blanket" etc.)

Having a laugh with a friend because of some minor hilarious event in the everyday life.

reasonvemotion wrote:May we have an insight into VoT, to start the ball rolling?

I enjoy making jokes with my friend. The jokes are sometimes on-the-edge, but normally not too much. I take pleasure in sharing the variety of visualizations that I and my buddy use to joke with each other, they are stimulating to my mind and the laughter alleviates me from the boredoms and pains of everyday-life, and his presence (virtual as well as real) is encouraging by providing the incentive from having the social relationship flourish, getting feedback, and feel connected with another person (we have come to start ending our lines of thought very similarly at times, which is a good sign of integrated thinking).

Also, the presence of another person makes it feel somewhat important what I do, as other people feel important to me, and this acts as a counter-depressive experience to my mind, giving me purpose, identity and a somewhat sense of security.