A Life Of Pleasure Options

I was wondering if there were OR are any people in the world who have lived a life full of pleasure. Someone whose life went how they imagined it or hoped for. It could be anyone. For example, maybe Hugh Hefner has lived an entire life where the pro's dramatically outway the con's.
I just feel for me that if things are going well in life, either someone is suffering for it or suffering will come upon me to balance out the good. I like to think I'm wrong with my outlook and hope that someone out the has lived a CAREFREE lifestyle without any complications or negative disturbances. Heck I won't beat about the bush, I want to live a life that is good and pleasing to me without feeling guilty.
Does anybody feel me? Am I entitled to live how I want or do I have to "earn" my happiness through arduous and tedious toil?
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Maybe not a bottle of wine but something like staying indoors watching animation movies all day and being fine with it because thats simply what you want to do, or just stay in and read books on all sorts of subjects.
Do many things that make you happy and know thats its alright to be happy.
I'm coming to realize that for me to remain in a certain state of happiness I would have to fixate on that 'thing' and remain with it as long as possible but to save distraction I would have to seclude myself in my own world of bliss and would inevitably become detached from society. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.
Would I be a bad person if I stopped caring about all the problems in the world and just focused on my own selfish gratification, looking out for number 1.
Is the guilt coming from the fact that I want to ignore global issues or that I'm denying myself a life of joy? What if we only live once, I might aswell make the most of it, right?
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This post has been edited by al_zaine: Mar 31 2009, 09:11 AM