Comment on To those who think that you should experience everything in the world at least once:
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoIf you’d like my personal experience:
My parents offered me money (if not much else), and always encouraged me to do new things. As a result, I did a lot of different things in my life, in fact, it’ll be hard for you to name any one “common” thing I haven’t done.
Now I play video games most of my time, and I have a lot of fun doing that. I enjoy cooking a good meal. I love looking at a sunset. All the different experiences I had led to me being able to enjoy the repetitive, same things. I don’t mind not doing many different things. I have no regrets.
So while I’m sure what you say can be true for some person, for me, it is definitely not. I’m not any more bored with the same old things than I was before doing everything. I’m very happy just doing few things, I don’t need a new thing every day to be happy. At the same time, if an opportunity presents itself, that I morally agree with, I don’t fear to take it, I don’t say “oh if I do this new thing the old things will be boring”, I just take the opportunity and later go back to the old thing, as happy as before.
Kinkisthebest@lemmy.org 1 day ago
I was actually talking about things that bring happiness fastly like drugs but i think i should have explicitly stated that.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
“Blinkered Philistine thinking”
“Drugs” do all sorts of things, not “bring happiness fastly”.
Some may cause euphoria, some may induce a sense of calm, some may cause disassociation, some may may make you more open - and each one is a slightly different experience for each person because of individual biochemistry and personal experience.
As my hillbilly family would say “you’re talkin’ outta yer ass”.
Your hubris is astounding.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
There are so many different types of drugs though.
Psychedelics are typically classified as drugs, for instance. Mushrooms show long term benefits after a single use, MDMA is closer to a stimulant dopamine blast, and LSD has been described as just fun. That’s a lot of variance in one category, but I still wouldn’t say people that do acid generally have issues with chasing quick highs compared to people that munch shrooms.