Behold the difference between someone who knows what makes them happy verses the person who is told what is supposed to make them happy.
Not necessarily. I was thinking about this the other day. My kid is in another state getting their PhD, and they messaged me saying there was a firefighting C130 down the street from them, and they couldn't go see it because they were working. They were seriously upset. I asked if their boss would let them take a break and make up time, so they asked and were told yes. Not long after, I got a mess of plane pics with very excited commentary. They were so happy.
So my kid was like this guy with his bat pops, and I was happy for them for sure, but I was reflecting that there isn't much that's ever made me feel that way. I'm huge on people pursuing what makes them happy, and would have no trouble doing that myself, but nothing makes me that happy. I do envy folks who have stuff like that.
At some point you realize you've sacrificed your "thing" to survive and you just shrug and try to remember what it was. eh.
Never too late to find something that sparks childlike glee. I'm in my 30s and I just rolled through home depot on heelys looking for insulation.
I'm afraid this is the case with my parents. I can't help but feel a bit responsible for this
Maybe? But I'm in my 60s, and have dabbled in a lot of stuff, so seems unlikely.
Don't get me wrong, there are loads of things I like. I picked up guitar in my 30s and enjoy that. My background is software engineering, and I enjoy stuff related to that. I read a giant amount of SF and fantasy. I'm a total chocoholic. I like exploring new places. But none of these things make me giddy happy like the stuff we're talking about.
Find out where the closest Muppet is to you, and go meet them in person.
Garaunteed giddiness wil ensue.
Honestly I think some people have just internalized the social pressure of needing to be calm or cool all the time. Exuberant happiness at small things is considered childish and many would mock adults for expressing happiness in this way. It takes a certain confidence and strength of character to hold on to that sense of joy without it being lost in the journey of growing into an adult.
The other day when walking back to my car at the end of a work day, I've noticed a father and his kid exercising and running on a pavement. The pavement had a walking area and a raised bicycle area. The kid while running did a zig-zag kind of running jumping in and out of the bicycle lane. The dad kept telling him to stop. I thought the dad was a killjoy , I thought it was fun and started running like that to my car.
Anybody who would mock me for something like that can go fuck themselves (and hopefully enjoy that at least). I remember me and another accountant going to watch a construction crane out of the window at our work, those are so much fun to watch. The shipping guy thought it was funny that grown women were at the window watching a crane moving stuff around. But won't most people stop to watch that?
I don't think you are supposed to outgrow fun or enjoyment. I like all sorts of adult things too, it's additive, I enjoy more now. I can't think of much I've outgrown except for very sweet foods, that has gone in the other direction, when young I enjoyed both dark and milk chocolate, for instance, now only dark.
My sister in law and I got a package of Star Wars Oreo cookies and went through the package to see all the characters on said cookies. We had a blast because we’re a couple of joyful dorks. This guy gets it.
I have been an adult for so, so long and still get squeaky delighted by bubbles coming out of the dish soap bottle unexpectedly, and my daughter's girlfriend got me hello kitty jellybeans, some things don't get old and I don't know why - expected to be jaded way before now and I just am not.
And some things are just fundamentally amazing, planted watermelons and they just set fruit and those vines grow so far every day, how do they do this just by eating sunlight? Every time I go look at them I am astonished.
Interestingly the watermelon (and other plants) don't quite eat the sunlight, but the chlorophyll in the plant uses the sunlight to get enough energy to steal the carbon atoms from the CO2 in the air. So your water melon is literally made out of thin air!
Is that true, though? Your body needs energy for various tasks and those have different mechanisms of spending the energy. Muscles, for example, move, which creates heat. But that heat is not simply breathed out.
The heat is literally produced by oxidizing (burning) carbon that you then breathe out as carbondioxide.
Producing heat isn't where the mass goes though - mass is conserved. You only lose mass to energy in a nuclear reaction.
Something has to go in there, if not losing energy to radiant heat transfer, then how e=m(c^2)?
I'm not sure what you mean by in there but yes, the heat would be transferred to the environment.
E=m(c^2) describes how much energy is contained in matter. It's useful for nuclear reactions, but your body isn't a nuclear reactor and you aren't consuming substantial quantities of radioactive isotopes, like uranium ore, that will decay on their own so it isn't relevant here.
This is how I felt when they released those Pokémon Oreos.
Then I got a mew, and there were news reports of people paying outlandish prices for them online, so I figured what the hell, this feels fake but WHAT IF?
My email address is now banned from ebay. Fuck it, worth for the story.
Worth it.
I excitedly collected all the unique ones I found in a big ziploc bag. However, after about a month of them sitting in the back of my pantry, I had to ask myself "Wait, what's the plan here? Am I going to keep this bag of Oreos forever?" and just ate them.
Now I want some ice cream shaped like Bezos or Musk or Zuckerberg. I just want to lick their face.
They are the absolute worst and I don't care what you have to say about hyper-inflation.
A hero like Batman is at least plausible in the real world, if at bit exaggerated... It's something you could hope to be.
Superman's just pure science fiction. It's not as relatable.
It's definitely not likely; but unlike Supermans powers, becoming something like Batman is actually within the relm of possibility.
When I hang out with my brother it's basically a constant stream of getting hyped up about stupid things we come up with or shenanigans in video games. His wife gets pissed off just from being around us because she doesn't get it. This post reminded me of that.
I got excited seeing a Hello Kitty/Care Bears crossover thing on a box in the garbage can as I threw a receipt away leaving the store the other day and had to stop myself from taking the box out of the trash just for the big image of all the Hello Kitty and Care Bears characters on it.
I should have at least saw what the box was for but I didn't wanna dig in the trash like a weirdo.
Is this where you find yourself pacing back and forth all over the aisles trying to findan box that even closely resembles this inside of the store like some kind of crazed lunatic?
You can go to the Sanrio store online and buy some merch. I think some of the care bear items are slightly discounted right now.
