Like you’ve seen everything and now you can only experience things you’ve already experienced.
Sounds like the dunning-kruger effect. You think you seen it all because you don’t know what you don’t know.
I think most in this thread are missing the point. It’s not really about specific knowledge, it’s about day to day existence and entertainment. The average person isn’t deep diving any topic, but nevertheless seeking the next dopamine hit becomes harder and harder and you’ve seen every core day to day thing by like age 20 which you must then rehash for another 60 years. I get the sentiment.
Yeah, this would be the right answer, the rest is basically the normal copium the humans need to keep themselves going.
I don’t blame them, once you run out of it, life is pretty mediocre.
This post made me think it would be good if there was a community where people could post about “stuff to do”, eg join a local amateur soccer team, here is how leagues work, here is how you find a club to play for, can anyone play, are there min/max ages on teams, are teams split by gender, what is the social scene like, etc etc. Kind of like an AMA but focussed on things people can do if they need an activity/hobby/sport/place-to-meet-new-friends. There’s probably heaps of scenes I don’t even know about, or don’t know how to get involved in.
no but i feel like i’m being denied it.
this is the wildest statement i’ve seen all month
the breadth and depth of the experiences that life has to offer is unfathomable. do not be so brazen to assume you have experienced even a tiny drop of vast ocean of what humans have actually lived through
From suicide in the trenches to the raising of a child; from gazing upon Earth from space to hunting a predator with a spear; from meditating in silence for weeks to leading a entire nation through a crisis; from winning a chess tournament to starting a business—and losing it all in a bankruptcy—existence is infinite, or may as well be.
think of it this way
there are 52 cards in a deck. that means every single deck has a specific order, right? what are the chances of you getting one specific order of cards if you shuffle? Well, how many different combinations are there? 52! ( ! means both factorial and emphasis here)
That’s 52 × 51 x 50 … all the way to × 2 × 1
That’s 8x10⁶⁷
That’s 8 with 67 zeros. Here
80000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
For reference… the number of seconds since the Big Bang is estimated to be about 4×10¹⁷
Now think of your life and human life in general. Think of all the variables. Hell, there are 7 days in a week. 52 weeks in a year. Coincidentally the same as a deck of cards.
If you do something different every week, there are going to be 8000000000… different ways your year could turn out.
So, please do not fall victim to this type of irrational thought. I’m not sure if it’s arrogance, depression, or something else leading to that delusion, but it’s a wild statement—absolutely nuts
Meaningfull differences? Who cares how many losing combination of cards you can randomize? There are only fifty-two cards and technically their are only 13 cards ace thru king. To me your argument translates to “look at that dead black kitten, you haven’t seen that yesterday it was a dead white kitten.” Lulz
i’m kind of lost on how to respond to this. we weren’t talking about games, the card analogy was to show that even with a relatively small set of starting conditions you can get to relatively absurd possibilities very quickly. it was to highlight the chaos theory that rules our lives.
the OP wasn’t about winning or losing anything, it was about “having experienced all life has to offer”. that would necessarily include both winning and losing combinations, no matter your subjective definition of “winning” or “losing”
and even having said all that and to follow your analogy- there are many games where drawing a face card (a-k) is a bad thing.
you ever play rummy? you want the least amount of points at the end of the round and face cards are worth more points.
you can make a straight flush with a 2 3 4 5 6 in poker, a face card can be enough to bust you in blackjack, etc.
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.
you haven’t sucked 4 dicks in a row
I don’t think I will. I’m boring in bed.
Yes, you probably should get some therapy about it.
Not even close. Too many things to learn, too many things you can get good at, not enough time to do them all.
Nah, I wanna fly a plane. Apparantly depression make you ineligible for a pilots licence… 🤷♂️
Also the bad eyesight probably isn’t gonna make it easier to fly a plane (I have to wear glasses all the time, and I’m too scared for lasik)
As morbid and fucked up as it is, I kinda wanna experience like civil war and just see what coups/revolutions looks like, I mean I’m kinda suicidal anyways, might as well experience something unique.
I wanna see humans land on mars, then permanent colonization and settlement of the moon and mars. Maybe even travel there.
Idk, like I’m just depressed and bored, and no movie or TV show is interesting… 😕
Regarding the depression. As long as you are conscious about it and have had therapy for it, just lie. Lie to become a pilot if it’s really your dream. You know yourself if you are going to be able to learn and drive it.
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
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.
Imagination needs expanding. I’m furious I only have a short windows to explore the world And I’m trapped under financial limitations.
