Like you’ve seen everything and now you can only experience things you’ve already experienced.
Nope. Almost every day I learn something new.
Not remotely. If you feel like you’ve seen everything, it might be time to consider a (literal) change of scenery. There are too many places to go, different people to meet and try to understand, books to read, flavors to taste. Seeing it online isn’t the same as seeing it in person with your own eyes. You could go a day’s walk in any direction and likely find something you haven’t seen before. You just have to be looking for it.
No, in fact I feel like I could be immortal and still never reach that point.
God, same
The opposite. I’m afraid I will waste my life procrastinating, not even being aware of what it has to offer.
I can’t even keep up with the movies and TV shows I want to watch.
Agreed, even if you limit yourself to major tentpole content its impossible to keep up.
But if you look at the uploads to major digital distribution platforms its incredible how much content is being produced:
- YouTube gets 500 hours of video uploaded per minute.
- Spotify has 60k tracks uploaded per day
- Kindle has 225k books published per month
- Steam has 50 games published per day
Not even close. Too many things to learn, too many things you can get good at, not enough time to do them all.
Im no big on new experiences. I like being content. Like a cat. I could never tire of walks or biking or gardening or relaxing or having a hot bath or whatever. I am sad for this world and where its going and even more so that it is my kind. Humanity. Driving it there. Nature is beautiful and terrifying and amazing. I very much appreciate I got to experience this timespace and yet do not want to be of this world.
You are me. And I also like cats and dogs and have a nice flower garden.
dogs right next to me right now but my wife is allergic so have had no cats in decades. sigh.
Yes I do feel like this. Sure there are things that I haven’t done, many involving money or skills that I don’t have. Each moment is unique.
But life feels like playing a video game that is procedurally generated. It’s superficial variations of the same component things and sensations that I have felt before.
This is a brilliant description; the feeling OP has is probably on a way more abstract level than most of the comments here are thinking of.
No. I’ve completed my personal bucket list though, so I’m never in a great rush to do things these days.
Yes and no. There’s always new ways to experience things. I just saw a great concert last night. I knew all the songs, but the presentation changed. People are always creating.
No. We’ve only scratched the surface of computer-aided collaboration. We could have a crowd thinking space with a consensus development environment, but instead progress has been opposed and we’re stuck with primitive wikis. My industry and career are standing still with extreme potential to improve humanity.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
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OP, just how wealthy are you? This is a very rich person assessment to make.
I make $700 a week at Amazon and $200 a week with DoorDash but I still don’t have my own apartment. On the plus side I have several months of expenses saved so I can take days off anytime (amazon is flexible as hell) but I really need to live alone where I can optimize my life for maximum peace and receive mail in my legal name. I really want (and need) to live in an apartment close enough to my warehouse that I can walk, bike, or ride public transit for less than 30 minutes. Preferably riding a bike or escooter in the early afternoon like whooooooosh
I’m not broke but I’m not ultra I Can’t See The Ground From My Window And My Dog Is My Alarm Clock rich. Not yet anyway, I will not stop trying to make money until I live in a multimillion dollar palace in the sky with like 10 bedrooms that are all mine, my animals’, and my husband’s.
Tl;dr I make $700 weekly and more if the stars align
You haven’t even bought a house.
Seen everything, my ass. You’re fucking bored, go do some shit.
Do what? All my hobbies feel like unpaid work and actual work feels like the last remotely fulfilling thing in my life.
Zen mind, Beginners mind
Is that any of that meditation nonsense that shit just backfires and makes me ruminate more
Sounds more like youre spinning wheels than experiencing life. Maybe you should try that. Go muddin, spin some wheels, hang out with your inner child, be your true self, buy some guns, overthrow the government, write a book about it and get laid in the garden.
i find life so unsatisfying that if, when i die, the afterlife has any resemblance AT ALL to this current reality, i am going to be fucking pissed.
like, any version of occupying a physical body in some sort of 3-dimensional space and surrounded by other physical beings is just, so… ugh.
i am over it.
Hood news. The afterlife is the same thing as the before life. Remember that? The 4 biillion odd years or so before you existed? Exactly.
Pre-universe non-existence: “Am I a joke to you?”
What percentage of people do you think on earth have the magic glass connecting them instantly with each other and their shitty lowest common denominator ideas? Of the people who don’t have the magic glass, I’d still wager they are all very similar: hunt, gather, shelter. So I will agree there are two archetypes. Magic glass slaves and people who only have time for survival. Tear the blindfold back face reality all humans are the same, or take the blue pill and wake up in your bed… Also you think a guy named alcoholic could be depressed lol in this world I’d imagine that is the correct state and perhaps we are over prescribed happy pills and pushed distractions to keep society fat dumb and “happy”.
People only with time for survival often have more spare time than magic glass people.
Idk buddy I never seen a fat survival person, I think that is a harder life than you think. Just because they have to rest doesn’t means it’s relaxing.
Get into folkloristics, it’s pretty fun. You can get into all the Slenderman stuff because it’s literally untapped mystery you can’t just rely on secondhand sources, all the research is centered on one controversy that somehow killed his popularity but not every other religion. My “job” (it’s a hobby) is basically having to read the hundreds of all the Slenderman blog ARGs ranging from 2009 to the present day, as well as all the freaking Slenderman and Creepypasta comics. It’s just interesting how religious patterns emerge out of something spontaneously created on the internet, like Zalgo vs Slenderman having parallels with every other religion with “divine rivalry”. Interesting anthropological subject.
Or you can read world history that isn’t just Eurocentric stuff. Hell, I bet most people don’t know European History in depth. You can even get into scholarly theology, from Christianity to Hinduism (which btw, is more of an umbrella term as it is composed of multiple religions). Read philosophies like Confucianism, which will help you understand a bit of Chinese culture.
