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I totally agree with Savater, the answer is as simple as¨ happiness¨. Anyway as simple as it might seem, it is one of the most difficult things to experience and keep. For not anyone learns to find simple happiness in simple things.A first step would be to reflect upon what we have. Then we can start making choices, and finally learn to love what we have.
Another word that I would like to discussed is the word PLEASURE.There is nothing bad in doing something for pleasure... the only problem or the only reason why we tend to reject anything that gives us pleasure is because of what Savater calls the oldest fear of the human being: Our Fear of Pleasure...the fact is that we don't have to be afraid of it but to be aware that as well as it happens with everything else we have to be very careful in order to avoid going into extremes. Most people are not "afraid of pleasure" in itself.I think what frightens many of us is the price we might have to pay for it. As if we had learned to believe that we don't have a right to enjoy life.

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One thing that we have discussed while we are reading Savater is that we need to make the right choices so as to live a good life. We need to consider that life as a human one, and this means, living with other human beings. if we want to be loved and have a good human life the main idea entailed in this concept is to be able to feel what someone else feels. So if we feel sad when someone feels sad and we feel happy when someone feels happy we won't make them feel sad or bad but, on the contrary, we will try to make them feel well, happy, joyful... As we are all humans, we are the only ones that can understand and feel what someone else (another human being).when we can emphatise, when we can see things (and understand them!!) from somebody else's perspective... when we can be objective in our judgements... In order to distinguish if we are being loved or used, we need to define what we understand for loving others. According to Savater, being loved is no only being important to somebody else but also to be understood. When we understand others, when we step on their shoes . But we must take into account is that all of us have the same rights, rights to be understood, rights to be different.
We as teachers need to care about others, we need to understand them and love them. It is not only being more humans but choosing how to do it. As teachers, we need to take into account out students´s viewpoints i.e, take into account THEIR RIGHTS. If one of my students could not come to class, I shouldn't be mad or upset with him but I should try to put myself in his position, trying to analyse the reasons why he did not come: tiredness, job problems, family issues, etc.