Pleasing is a word that is not used much today.
With all of the social awareness that will practice nowadays when I hear the word pleasing automatically think of a negative connotation of someone being forced to do something to make someone else feel happier. Mostly in the context of dressing up, or performing a sex act, or something like that. But to be pleasing to someone at least to me sounds bad before it sounds good.
Pleasing is a positive word. I used it today when I was capturing something in my journal when I said that it was pleasing to talk to my daughter. I got pleasure out of it. And there's nothing wrong with getting pleasure out of something. One of the things that we are wired for is to seek out pleasure. And as long as you keep those pleasures from becoming outrageous or infringing on somebody else there's nothing wrong with. Sounds pretty libertarian but it is the way that I feel.
I seek pleasure in my use of technology I ease myself with something I do. Like shopping for new gadgets. Like watering my plants. And thinking up new ways to water the plants.
So pleasing is a good word.
