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Getting in the zone is something exhilarating for me - I experience euphoria, though I don't really notice the feeling until after it's over or if I get broken
by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Getting in the zone is something exhilarating for me - I experience euphoria, though I don't really notice the feeling until after it's over or if I get broken out of it.
It was actually something that as of late has started to disturb me: I notice that I live for moments like that, when I get in the zone and the whole world melts away. I feel like a junkie seeking a high, and thinking back on my youth and how destructive I was to my body and my interpersonal relationships in pursuit of "code all the time," I wonder whether that analogy is even more accurate than I'd like to believe.
I look back on my life and wonder if I've actually been a lifelong addict who is lucky enough to have a productive output of his addiction rather than a functioning member of society.
I don't know if others feel or have felt this way, or if it's just a phase that I'm going through. But these are my thoughts at the moment.
- DutchKevv 9y agoSame here.. I made a comment somewhere saying the same as you, but I feel like I'm in the middle of the thing your looking back at. I really do feel like a junky, that has found a pile of whatever it needs and the world encourages me to get better in 'using' and keeps paying me more to get higher and higher.. it's such a strange 'unethical' feeling.. I'm programming for about 8 years now in full throttle, and it keeps feeling stranger.. I'm somehow glad others experience it also...
- sherkaner 9y agoI'm completely opposite. I was playing chess from the childhood, and started programming only in the university. As a result, I'm addicted to chess, but not to programming. It is ridiculously hard for me to get in a zone while working, while I can play chess non-stop for hours and hours without noticing the time flying by. I'd love to reverse chess and programming....