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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People have had similar experiences for least a couple thousand years.
Ecclesiastes 1:8-9
Or, as one translation put:
Everything is futile.