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I don’t get what it is that makes earlier times so beautiful to think about. I loved everyone and everything. I could do anything and I’d wake up the next day and realize it didn’t matter.
I think for humans the happiness we feel revolves around the relationship we have between control and responsibility over our lives along with the amount of new things. Everything is new and beautiful because you’ve never experienced anything and that makes time move slower.
When you’re a kid you have no control but you have no responsibility. You’re able to exist freely in obliviousness. When you grow up, you gain more control and responsibility. When you’re a kid you have everything to look forward to, when you’re a teen you still have things to look forward to, when you’re an adult it’s pretty much done.
This is why it’s recorded that humans feel like time moves slower and like the first 25 years of life are equivalent in time to the final 55. We’re supposed to explore new things as humans but when we live like this we’re set in a confinement that leaves that behind completely. When you’re 9 you can play video games, when you’re 10 you can hang out with your friends on your own outside, when you’re 16 you can drive, when you’re 18 you can be an adult, etc.
This is most likely also why happiness peaks in early 20’s to late teens for most people.
You have a life filled with new things, new people, new experiences constantly until you settle down and you’ve discovered everything already. You’re used to being an adult, being able to drive, being able to drink.
The brain doesn’t feel the need to slow down because it doesn’t need to take in any new information.
A midlife crisis is at 25. Not 50. And that’s just hard to think about.
I know I’m not saying anything profound or deep I’m just trying to put how I feel into words so maybe someone can answer how to stop life from being like this. How do you trick your brain into thinking it needs to slow down? Everything just floats by now and I’m pretty sure it’s like that for everybody.
DNR schizoramblings of a pretentious iqlet greycel
I don’t get what it is that makes earlier times so beautiful to think about. I loved everyone and everything. I could do anything and I’d wake up the next day and realize it didn’t matter.
I think for humans the happiness we feel revolves around the relationship we have between control and responsibility over our lives along with the amount of new things. Everything is new and beautiful because you’ve never experienced anything and that makes time move slower.
When you’re a kid you have no control but you have no responsibility. You’re able to exist freely in obliviousness. When you grow up, you gain more control and responsibility. When you’re a kid you have everything to look forward to, when you’re a teen you still have things to look forward to, when you’re an adult it’s pretty much done.
This is why it’s recorded that humans feel like time moves slower and like the first 25 years of life are equivalent in time to the final 55. We’re supposed to explore new things as humans but when we live like this we’re set in a confinement that leaves that behind completely. When you’re 9 you can play video games, when you’re 10 you can hang out with your friends on your own outside, when you’re 16 you can drive, when you’re 18 you can be an adult, etc.
This is most likely also why happiness peaks in early 20’s to late teens for most people.
You have a life filled with new things, new people, new experiences constantly until you settle down and you’ve discovered everything already. You’re used to being an adult, being able to drive, being able to drink.
The brain doesn’t feel the need to slow down because it doesn’t need to take in any new information.
A midlife crisis is at 25. Not 50. And that’s just hard to think about.
I know I’m not saying anything profound or deep I’m just trying to put how I feel into words so maybe someone can answer how to stop life from being like this. How do you trick your brain into thinking it needs to slow down? Everything just floats by now and I’m pretty sure it’s like that for everybody.
DNR schizoramblings of a pretentious iqlet greycel