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Y'all can't enjoy watching a sunset without being "motivated"?

• DilutedCoke 4y ago
• hayst4ck 4y ago
  You know, you say that in jest, but having experienced a fair amount of depression in my life, I can definitely say that I have been so unmotivated that sunsets do nothing. "why watch the sunset, I've got all this other stuff I have to do and even if I do it life will still suck and it's so much effort to drive somewhere just to watch something beautiful alone, life is so meaningless." (exaggeration, kinda) Robert Sapolsky (Stanford Professor) has said: > If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets."
  • delusional 4y ago
    Odd, I've felt the same but always attributed it to being "too motivated" by other stuff. I can't enjoy a sunset because I'd be thinking about something else I'd rather do.
• agumonkey 4y ago
  yeah there's an emotional threshold where you just can contemplate existence with a comfy mat of joy, even if totally passive and idle