Humans adapt. We have abysmal bandwidth, so we have adapted. If anything is normal you don’t notice. You reserve bandwidth for the unexpected. You already know how to react and what to do/feel regarding daily life.
Absolutely, you stop measuring the passage of time in days and years and start measuring it in experiences. When you’re young and everything is new it’s absolutely full. The 10th or hundredth time you’ve done something you handle it more easily but it also starts to seem like one ‘thing’.
Routine is the quickest way to looking back on life and feeling like it was the blink of an eye.
Everyone can afford experiences. Experiences don’t have to be a trip abroad or jumping from hobby to hobby.
There are people with legitimate obstacles that prevent them from doing even the simplest enrichment activities, but exploring the world around you, asking questions about things you take for granted, seeing how long you can hold your breath, try a yoga pose, count your steps on the way to work and try estimating how many steps it will take you to go to the shop down the street… Opportunities for experiences are effectively unlimited.
I feel this way precisely because I keep doing new and novel things: there are so much to learn, think, and try out, I feel I am constantly in a rush.
When I was younger, I either have well-defined tasks or I would hit technical blocks forcing me to stop for a long time. Now, I get to work on all the hard problems to my heart’s desire, and is also more skilled, thus hits way less blocks. I am in a constant race against my own ideas and desires to try new things…
It is cool and fulfilling, but also terribly exhausting most of the time :(
Keep doing new and novel things. It helps!
Humans adapt. We have abysmal bandwidth, so we have adapted. If anything is normal you don’t notice. You reserve bandwidth for the unexpected. You already know how to react and what to do/feel regarding daily life.
Break rhythm
Absolutely, you stop measuring the passage of time in days and years and start measuring it in experiences. When you’re young and everything is new it’s absolutely full. The 10th or hundredth time you’ve done something you handle it more easily but it also starts to seem like one ‘thing’.
Routine is the quickest way to looking back on life and feeling like it was the blink of an eye.
People can’t afford experiences anymore
Everyone can afford experiences. Experiences don’t have to be a trip abroad or jumping from hobby to hobby.
There are people with legitimate obstacles that prevent them from doing even the simplest enrichment activities, but exploring the world around you, asking questions about things you take for granted, seeing how long you can hold your breath, try a yoga pose, count your steps on the way to work and try estimating how many steps it will take you to go to the shop down the street… Opportunities for experiences are effectively unlimited.
Most of my best experiences didn’t cost anything except some time.
Those are the best, time well spent.
Many can’t afford time either
Yeah, the nervous system works by detecting deltas. Gradual changes can sneak up on you.
Use it or lose it is true of the mind and the body. And it’s better to burn out than to fade away (and no, I don’t mean taking Kurt’s way out).
I feel this way precisely because I keep doing new and novel things: there are so much to learn, think, and try out, I feel I am constantly in a rush.
When I was younger, I either have well-defined tasks or I would hit technical blocks forcing me to stop for a long time. Now, I get to work on all the hard problems to my heart’s desire, and is also more skilled, thus hits way less blocks. I am in a constant race against my own ideas and desires to try new things…
It is cool and fulfilling, but also terribly exhausting most of the time :(