'Gratification'

I have never known the word gratification before Ken told us. 
Gratification is the state of feeling pleasure when something goes well for you or when your desires are satisfied____from Oxford Dictionary.

Gratification is different from pleasure, which is brief, emotional, little thinking. On the other hand gratification is engaging, absorbing, and thinking. This is what Ken explain to us, but it was difficult for me to understand the difference clearly.

Then we talked about our own gratification. Because I did not understand the concept well, I did not come up with good idea, but the members who I talked with had very interesting and fantastic gratification in themselves. 

Ei said her gratification was  writing and checking the posts in the facebook and so on. I think she is  gratified to get new idea and to express her thought. 

Reiko's gratification, she said, was teaching Japanese to her friends. Teaching something requires skills and time, but at the same time, it gives teachers sense of achievement, I think.

Yu said his gratification was music! It seemed that music was really important part of him, and he loved it. He also said he liked planning! Planning for cooking, maybe  for studying, tasks whatever. I like to plan too, but never complete it... ;(

Hearing their interesting talk, I think, I have been focusing on only pleasure. For example, eating, shopping, watching TV or movies, reading comics etc. I feel the happiest when doing these things. When I talked at class, I said my gratification was making greeting cards, collage of photos and sending them for friends and family. However I wondered it could be my true gratification.

What can be my gratification? The question is deep for me. I think understanding our own gratification makes our lives better.  So that, I intend to think about what is my gratification from now on.


When I thought that↑, I found an image ↓. There are many various ideas around the concept!