I'm a pretty middling writer, I wasn't sure how best to describe this concept. Again, this is from secondary anecdotes, I'm rephrasing something I was told by a

I'm a pretty middling writer, I wasn't sure how best to describe this concept. Again, this is from secondary anecdotes, I'm rephrasing something I was told by a friend. If I were to reach for examples, I might say this human glow is fostered when holding your brother's baby for the first time, or watching the sunrise after a morning hike, or making a speech at a cousin's wedding. It's rewarding and fulfilling in a way entirely compartmentalized from the feeling stimulants provide. My understanding is that stims tend to make us prioritize activities which are more artificially rewarding. Writing code, playing Dota, arguing online - all of these things feel great while on stims, but are spiritually empty in a way that I find difficult to explain to people who are already using. That's the reason that despite an ADHD diagnosis in my youth I never picked up the stuff. Life is so short and almost none of its best parts are experienced behind the computer.