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I'm not talking about substances, but things just don't give the same highs as they used to.
Getting a new Nintendo game as a kid and you're giddy all the way home, reading the back of the box.
Last time I bought a game I had been looking forward to for years it was lying in a drawer for a month before I even installed it.
I had my first kid this year, and it's probably the best thing to have happened to me in the last few years. But I don't think the joy I felt compares to that new NES game as a kid. I wish I still would get that kind of highs.
I'm pretty sure the last good day was sometime in 1996.
as a child we experience everything for the first time. this grows neural paths and releases dopamine. colors are more vibrant, food tastes better.
as we age our brains get used to the dopamine and we look for ways to increase its production. sex, drugs, illicit activities, etc.
you will never recapture the way you felt watching the dinosaurs in JP inside a theater in 1995. you will never stare at a color in bewilderment of its vibrancy again.
find new experiences that could blast your brain with dopamine instead.
buy a hooker. smoke crack once. gamble $10k at one sitting.
Sure, but where do I go from there for my next high?
cheat on your spouse? with your neighbors? then rob a bank?
It's also just been a tough period to grow up. Depends on region but housing, did and cost of living in many have been significantly harder than in the past.
Every year is harder to get by than the last, despite unprecedented advances in science and tech.