what if constant pleasure wasn’t the goal

posted on June 21, 2024

let’s hypothetically think you have the perfect life (e.g. a million dollar a month, 100% free time)

while i haven’t experienced it myself, i’ve come to experience neet-dom aka 100% free time and i can self assuredly say that it absolutely SUCKS even without monetary pressure.

i’m a fairly routine-based person, which means I don’t especially like to try new things. I have a set of “fun” stuff I can do during the day, based on personal whims and how I’m feeling in that specific moment, but it’s all pretty same-y (assuming no external factors)

you slowly build tolerance towards those “fun” things and the pleasure returns on time investment get lower and lower, sometimes so intolerably low that some shit just isn’t fun anymore.

so im wondering if in that hypothetical situation i’d force myself to do non-fun shit so that I can enjoy the “fun” moments even more, in moderation.