its an interesting observation
look deep enough and you find that all experience is inherently dissatisfactory
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It’s never as amazing as I imagine it to be after I finally get it. But then after the refractory period, I want it again lmao slave to impulse and desire. Not just sexual either, but in general. Like when I get high, it feels great. But then after it’s over, it’s like okay now what? I imagine this is how people get addicted to hard drugs. Constantly chasing good feeling.
i like alan debotton on this. he says wisdom consists partly in understanding regret is part of the human experience and will not be solved enitirely by making "the perfect choices" similar to this is nostalgia. understand outselves and our emotions should lead to us enjoying and rembering and striving for superior pleasures as aristole teaches in the nicomeanean ethics. but suffering and mental weirdness exist as buddists and others teach.
Nostalgia is such a weird thing. I have feelings of nostalgia about different time periods in my life but I know that it isn’t as amazing as I remember it to be. We forget the pain of the bad times.
The Buddha figured this out 2500yrs ago.
Good thing his teachings still circulate.
Focus within, stop wishing for outside things to fulfill you. They never will.