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Pain extends time. Pleasure decreases it. Do things that are painful. Find pleasure in the painful like discipline and stuff that is uncomfortable.
by pizzafeelsright 3y ago
Pain extends time. Pleasure decreases it. Do things that are painful. Find pleasure in the painful like discipline and stuff that is uncomfortable.
- nemo44x 3y agoI’m not sure you’re optimizing correctly here…
- arethuza 3y agoThat sounds like Dunbar in Catch-22: "Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years."
- pjerem 3y agoI’m not sure that a long and painful life is preferable to shorter and happier life but if that’s your thing …
- GuB-42 3y agoThat's not my experience. Intense pain makes time feel longer, but it is the same for all intense experiences. And I am not even sure about that, endorphines can make time fly. And when I consider memories, pleasurable events tend to take more time in my mind, pain tend to get erased more than pleasure. For example, I don't remember much about sick days, though obviously uncomfortable, they don't take much subjective time, thankfully.
- pizzafeelsright 3y agoMemories that are recorded have an initial depth and upon retrieving the memory, the depth gets deeper. Trivial events, with little reason to recall, are forgotten. This explains how trauma and ptsd can create terrible feedback loops. Having lived through a somewhat damaging childhood I have chosen to not recall the unpleasant memories and have forgotten them.