With maturity comes a sense to me that very little in life is ‘worth it’, and that a ‘hunger for life’ is inspired by an overestimation of life, and that the world, though it contains endlessly fascinating things, isn’t really very interesting on the whole.
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What happens is that your mind formed a layer of conceptual narrative abstraction over the layers of sensory experience during adolescence. After that, it can be very hard to experience the present, and you lose the joy and satisfaction that only the immediate present can bring.
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Do you have a link that explains this further?
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No, I just observed in myself and others (often in lesser degrees). It is also somewhat reversible with meditation or immersion in nature.
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