I once heard that when you take cocaine for the first time, then it attacks your nervous system or something.
It causes a massive high, and your happiness level goes through the roof! But then the comedown is pretty hard to take, and it causes serious damage to your psyche.
Your comedown takes your "happiness level" down a notch, and you're unable to be as happy as you were before taking the drugs.
The only other way to be as happy again is to take more drugs.
Is this true?
And if it is, is this theory exclusive to drugs?
Or is it just how life works in general?
If you replace cocaine with pain in that paragraph, it still makes the same amount of sense as before.
As soon as the initial pain is over, you feel a sense of, well I'm not really sure. Relief? Excitement? Hope?
But that feeling, whatever it is, does not erase the pain. The pain will always still be there. It's just human nature to try and feel other things to replace it or forget it.
And I'm fine with that.
I'm just really emo, and I'm into this sort of shit.
Emotion, and pain in general, really interest me. I know, I should have done Psychology at A-level, but I prefer to do my own research. ;)
LOL! I just read this back, and it's blindingly simple. This is just how life works, and I've known this for years, I guess. It's just that sometimes you get a different perspective on something, and it seems like it's brand new.
Now I think about it, everything in life is exactly the same. It's just from a different perspective.
Maybe it's true that people are only truly happy once in their lives. Just once. And then they are punished for it. For the rest of their lives. The punishment is that they never forget that one moment.
ReplyDeleteMap, you are way too smart for this planet!
ReplyDeleteGreat quote.