Like you’ve seen everything and now you can only experience things you’ve already experienced.
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Regarding the depression. As long as you are conscious about it and have had therapy for it, just lie. Lie to become a pilot if it’s really your dream. You know yourself if you are going to be able to learn and drive it.
no but i feel like i’m being denied it.
Not really? Always something else beyond the horizon.
Sounds like the dunning-kruger effect. You think you seen it all because you don’t know what you don’t know.
I think most in this thread are missing the point. It’s not really about specific knowledge, it’s about day to day existence and entertainment. The average person isn’t deep diving any topic, but nevertheless seeking the next dopamine hit becomes harder and harder and you’ve seen every core day to day thing by like age 20 which you must then rehash for another 60 years. I get the sentiment.
Yeah, this would be the right answer, the rest is basically the normal copium the humans need to keep themselves going.
I don’t blame them, once you run out of it, life is pretty mediocre.
This post made me think it would be good if there was a community where people could post about “stuff to do”, eg join a local amateur soccer team, here is how leagues work, here is how you find a club to play for, can anyone play, are there min/max ages on teams, are teams split by gender, what is the social scene like, etc etc. Kind of like an AMA but focussed on things people can do if they need an activity/hobby/sport/place-to-meet-new-friends. There’s probably heaps of scenes I don’t even know about, or don’t know how to get involved in.
That is impossible. There are more unique experiences than one can have in their lifetime. Getting a bachelors, meaning really surface level understanding in one topic takes three full time years. If you actually had nothing else to do, you could do that for maybe 15 topics. And that’s just learning. What about sports, music, traveling and the endless other human activities.
Yeah, life is what you make it. Here I am feeling like there isn’t enough time to do everything I want to do. Wild how different the mindset can be.
New experiences keep your mind feeling young and healthy. They also make time move slower. Time flies when everything’s mundane. That’s how you blink and suddenly you’re older. Can’t remember what you did because you didn’t really do anything. Someone told me this once and I’ve found it to be very true.
Hell no, not even close.
One one level, obviously you can never experience everything, the world is fricking massive and ever-changing. But you can feel like you’ve seen and done everything that interests you, and find it hard to remain curious and develop new interests. There have been times that I think the only interests and goals that will ever feel relevant to me are ones that I’ve had since I was a kid. But even “eating yummy food, playing games and reading fantasy books” is more than enough to fill my entire life.
When I’ve been lucky enough to have the time, I’ve filled many hours, day after day, cooking delicious meals and trying new things in the kitchen, and the list of things I want to try expands just as fast as I tick them off. Similarly, although I’ve read countless fantasy novels over the decades I’ve only just got round to reading classics like Conan and Elric, and there’s so much more out there - and people write more books every year!
But there are times when I can’t face new challenges, and I retreat to the easy comfort of things I know. This can be reassuring and restful, but if I get to the stage where I’m sick of watching the same show I’ve seen so many times, then I know it’s time for me to start pushing myself to try new things and develop new tastes (even if it’s just subvarieties of things I already like). And if I don’t feel up to that, it means I need to get some support and help to improve my mood and clear my thinking.
Yes, you probably should get some therapy about it.
Not really, the bucket list only gets longer
No, not at all. I’ve travelled extensively (maybe 75 countries) and had reams of wild experiences, but I’ve not seen a fraction of what the world has to offer.
I doubt I could even make a dent in the amount of art, music, theatre, film, TV, fiction, dance, and reading about scientific studies made only this year so far if I was trying to consume and experience everything.
Let alone everything from the last 200 years. So, no, even without leaving my house there’s enough new things to last a lifetime
Would those experiences provide fulfillment?
frequently, yes. You can’t convince me you’ve never been entertained and enriched by entertainment
I never made that claim. I will claim that I don’t find entertainment or enrichment in a majority of the entertainment that’s produced however.
A card game is still a card game. Slight variation on the rules doesn’t make it dynamical better or new and exciting. I suppose if your easily amused "look this king has a sword that he is cutting his head off with. " “It used to be an axe you know.” And I found a profound amount of joy in that.
OP you probably realize you haven’t literally seen/experienced everything in the world. I suspect you’ve switched from one stage in your life to another. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but you probably want to talk to a trusted friend / relative / counselor to make sure you’re not depressed or something. I gotta say tho that people who “go crazy” as teens and young adults and never stop are sometimes very off-kilter as older people.
I enjoy the comments in this thread just get a new hobby and ignore your impending death and pointlessness in all this made up societal dogma. OP clearly is just being honest with himself it’s called growing up.
this is the wildest statement i’ve seen all month
the breadth and depth of the experiences that life has to offer is unfathomable. do not be so brazen to assume you have experienced even a tiny drop of vast ocean of what humans have actually lived through
From suicide in the trenches to the raising of a child; from gazing upon Earth from space to hunting a predator with a spear; from meditating in silence for weeks to leading a entire nation through a crisis; from winning a chess tournament to starting a business—and losing it all in a bankruptcy—existence is infinite, or may as well be.
think of it this way
there are 52 cards in a deck. that means every single deck has a specific order, right? what are the chances of you getting one specific order of cards if you shuffle? Well, how many different combinations are there? 52! ( ! means both factorial and emphasis here)
That’s 52 × 51 x 50 … all the way to × 2 × 1
That’s 8x10⁶⁷
That’s 8 with 67 zeros. Here
80000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
For reference… the number of seconds since the Big Bang is estimated to be about 4×10¹⁷
Now think of your life and human life in general. Think of all the variables. Hell, there are 7 days in a week. 52 weeks in a year. Coincidentally the same as a deck of cards.
If you do something different every week, there are going to be 8000000000… different ways your year could turn out.
So, please do not fall victim to this type of irrational thought. I’m not sure if it’s arrogance, depression, or something else leading to that delusion, but it’s a wild statement—absolutely nuts
Meaningfull differences? Who cares how many losing combination of cards you can randomize? There are only fifty-two cards and technically their are only 13 cards ace thru king. To me your argument translates to “look at that dead black kitten, you haven’t seen that yesterday it was a dead white kitten.” Lulz
i’m kind of lost on how to respond to this. we weren’t talking about games, the card analogy was to show that even with a relatively small set of starting conditions you can get to relatively absurd possibilities very quickly. it was to highlight the chaos theory that rules our lives.
the OP wasn’t about winning or losing anything, it was about “having experienced all life has to offer”. that would necessarily include both winning and losing combinations, no matter your subjective definition of “winning” or “losing”
and even having said all that and to follow your analogy- there are many games where drawing a face card (a-k) is a bad thing.
you ever play rummy? you want the least amount of points at the end of the round and face cards are worth more points.
you can make a straight flush with a 2 3 4 5 6 in poker, a face card can be enough to bust you in blackjack, etc.
No.
I still want to travel more.
I want to pursue music in some small way, at least, even if only a few local shows here and there, to say I did it and to really experience it.
I’d like to see my book published someday, even if it generally flops, because I would like the ideas out there.
I’d like to see my kids establish themselves as adults and help with that process, even if it might not end up as extravagant as I’d liked.
I’d like to meet someone really cool again and have an awesome relationship, having learned pretty well what works and what doesn’t, by now. Maybe.
I want to try like 10 jobs I haven’t, yet. Do I still have time to be a doctor? Maybe! We’ll see!
