Looking at all the gen z's..

They are always smiling and laughing over nothing.

Like in a constant euphoric high that I believe stems from youth and possible inexperience.

You know, the young girls and broccoli haircuts always all euphoric and chit, but having accomplished nothing in the moment.

Is it pure youthful ignorance? Or just youthful bliss?

TBH I miss feeling like this in high school early college.

I'm not sure if it's a blessing or curse.

It was a good time before worrying about marriage, finances, politics.

Meanwhile ww3 raging in the background and the degeneration of modern society in full steam.

The broccoli boyos have no idea about reality. Unless they have rich parents. Even then they might squander their generational wealth.

Middle aged people in their 40s are just dicks... they are transitioning between youth and old age.

They treat both the young and old like chit. Sending their parents to nursing homes and scolding their children instead of educating them.

Contrast the youth to the elderly...

Rarely see old people in a euphoric state of being.

Almost as if they were in a state of suffering..

Most old folks have a frown or a scowl when walking around..

They have experienced booms and busts, world wars, marriages and divorces...

With the imminent spectre of death lurking in the midst..

Life is crazy boyos...

Make sure to live laugh and love as corny as the chit sounds boyos.

Fuk your insecurities boyos.

Yes I’m very often in a silly goofy mood srs

That's good to hear I truly admire that.

Keep that state of mind no matter what goes on in your life.

Blessing brothas I wish I can feel like that RN.

No....too much real life.

Check your hormones

I have greater excitement and motivation towards life. I would suggest it is more meaningful as it is not naive.

I still get the legit zoomies once in a while but only under specific circumstances, usually late at night with nothing to do but play videogames and no stresses hanging over me

Everyone is ignorant to the world when they're 19, you think you know everything but you know nothing

It's the last stage of adolescence before entering immature adulthood, very little impulse control or foresight



Having a cynical negative outlook in your daily life is the start of depressive disorder, you should address it before you spiral

Being young is all about opportunity and thinking about the future. Every kid thinks they're going to hit it big one day, even though they have no idea how they're going to get there. Who wouldn't be excited about life at that stage?

Once you become an adult and realize you're just a regular person with an average job like 99% of people, that excitement is over.

Thank you brotha. On a more serious note i definitely have been humbled and hurt by life quite a few times to an extent where many people would be jaded. But one of the biggest things that has helped me is really grounding myself deeply in my spiritual beliefs and always taking on the perspective that it is a miracle that I even get to exist and experience consciousness, and that since I can only ever control a tiny tiny fraction of what happens externally, no matter what happens I can always choose how to interpret something & react appropriately. I view every single thing as happening for my own good, the good to bring me joy/appreciation/love and the bad to challenge/grow/deepen myself and my gratitude for life. Is every single thing that happens to me for my ultimate good? I choose to believe so, in reality it’s actually neutral but again, the choice in perspective is what I can control

On top of that I aim to eat healthy, exercise often, and make sure my brain/body is putting out good chemicals and hormones because being in a good mood all the time makes this perspective easier to take on

Rambled on a bit but good thread brah and many blessings

You won't feel like that again until you have a kid

Fukc no
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lmao I've been bitter and jaded af since I was about 22. Srs.

Never was euphoric or giddy in my teens. Was often rigid and depressed, srs. I'm a lot more calm and collected these days. Still got the libido of a 16 yo kid on spring break, though. I'm a bit autistic so I might laugh at something no one else would, but that's about it.

This is why alcoholism has a huge prevalence. It makes oldercels feel young again, get excited about things, feel more dramatic emotions, euphoric, dopamine, etc. Then they go back to sober life, noticing the relative difference of their happiness while sober vs drunk, yearning to get back to feeling excited again. Then alcoholism takes its toll and causes weight gain, pharks up your dopamine levels, exacerbates the differences of happiness and satisfaction between drunk and sober, etc.

Outside of alcohol topics, I do agree that there's a sense of curiosity, unknown, excitement for the future, and optimism that is easier to possess and harness in your youth. In fact, if I had to pick one word to describe what OP's talking about, it would be "optimism." Possession of it creates excitement for the future, confidence things will work out. Youth in itself can serve as an excuse for making bad decisions or choosing the wrong actions, the older folks typically understand it and excuse it.

It's no wonder the youth are more optimistic and excited for the future though, they've had less of a life to live, including less bad things to happen to them or those they know. Showered with accolades and praise if they do well in school or do well in sports, a sense of progression as they pass each grade / year of college, and likely the largest social circle they'll have for the rest of their lives.

Final thoughts at the moment for this are that happiness is up to your perception, which can be influenced by your environment, substances, luck, and many other things. So too is optimism in itself. Find a happy place in your mind, cultivate an ideal routine, and start looking forward to what's to come in your future. View yourself as a whole other person, like a video game character, and treat yourself with the respect and values that you'd uphold to others.

The issue is that alcohol is a temporary relief to a long term problem. Also, you can never be truly as happy while drunk as when you achieve something of personal value while sober. In order to truly know how good something is you'd have to experience the bad, too. When you are drunk you are barely mentally awake to begin with, so you act all happy and giddy, but on a deeper subconscious level you understand that it's just cope.

You can be happy while drunk you just won't remember much of it

I am aware how it feels like to be tipsy and drunk. I'm just saying that it's nowhere near the excitement and happiness of actually achieving something that will help you or your loved ones. The first time I made money online was pure bliss. It's a feeling one can't really experience until it happens to them, srs. In that moment, you genuinely feel like you are in a fairy tale because you are told that if it sounds too good to be true it almost always is.

What are you babbling about? The current young generation is the most depressed in history. Their rates of suicide and mental illness are way up. OP is clueless.

I agree with a lot of what has already been written, but I want to add…

I think that living in the “present” comes a lot easier and more naturally when you are young. Adulthood is great at destroying your capacity to do this, as there’s always some chit to worry about or something that needs doing. As adults we’re mostly lost in thought, and this is something that has happened to us so gradually that most of the time we don’t realise we’re doing it nor how bad it has gotten.

I quit drinking about a year ago. It always blew my mind seeing people in their 50's going downtown to the bar scene back when I still did that. Alcohol never did anything for me but make me feel like dogchit after I hit my 30's.

I often feel those emotions

but not AS often as when I was oblivious.

I remember vividly when I told my cousin "I think everything is possible, I just need the opportunity, and I will be successful"

Jeez was that wrong.

But otherwise life aint so bad. And I'm at what most would call rock bottom.

Shrooms

I was super depressed in my 20s it was terrible.

moreso. Life really is good