Am I lacking dopamine because of depression or because I’ve done everything I like so much, I can’t get back to the dopamine levels my brain has grown accustomed to…? 🤔
I’ve seen every movie I want. Played every game. Read every book. Done so much shit off my bucket list. I’m just straight up bored with reality now.
People have had similar experiences for least a couple thousand years.
Ecclesiastes 1:8-9
All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Were most of your pursuits for your own enjoyment? Nothing wrong with that at all. But maybe that’s the next thing- doing stuff for community/others. That seems a bottomless well of satisfaction.
Am I lacking dopamine because of depression or because I’ve done everything I like so much, I can’t get back to the dopamine levels my brain has grown accustomed to…? 🤔
I’ve seen every movie I want. Played every game. Read every book. Done so much shit off my bucket list. I’m just straight up bored with reality now.
People have had similar experiences for least a couple thousand years.
Ecclesiastes 1:8-9
Or, as one translation put:
Everything is futile.
Shit man, that’s bleak.
Were most of your pursuits for your own enjoyment? Nothing wrong with that at all. But maybe that’s the next thing- doing stuff for community/others. That seems a bottomless well of satisfaction.