Is it normal to be disappointed in life

I find life boring and loves reading si fi and fantacy because i woud love if real life were just like the books i read.

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Based on 66 votes (55 yes)
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  • Zeppelin

    Books are beautiful, but it can be dangerous getting too caught up in them and ignoring the joys and wonders of real life. This brings in the "Hedonic Treadmill". Basically, whenever you do something, you've got millions of synapses firing in your brain, sending the signals to make you do stuff, like brushing your teeth for instance. Because you brush your teeth so often, it becomes second nature to the point where you could do it in your sleep. This is because the connections made of synapses firing strengthens from the repeated patterns. The same applies to everything you do, such as learning a skill, your daily rituals, etc. So if you are living a boring life such as: Go to work/school, come home, browse internet, read, sleep, and you live that cycle constantly, then it becomes harder to break that cycle since you've been stuck on the Hedonic treadmill, the strengthening of those synapses. In your case, you're stuck on the "books are better than rl" treadmill way of thinking. While I completely agree with you, it's not a "healthy" way of thinking because it could have undesirable consequences in your life later down the road. Life's getting boring for you? Get off that treadmill! Make a list of goals! Learn to swim across a lake, learn an instrument, learn sword fighting, lock picking, get into weightlifting, maybe write a book instead of reading! Life is infinite in our possible ways of living, the universe is infinite in size, you're mind is internally so infinite that you can't even ponder the idea of infinite variables (infinity means too large to understand, not unlimited.). Sorry for the long rant haha.

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    • RoseIsabella

      I like what you're saying here.

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  • yesnomaybeso

    Boooks Books are amazing <3

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  • Life is what you make of it. You can have a great life if you took the right steps.

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    • Unimportant

      And yet another one of those phrases that are just not true.

      Some people cannot have a great life, period. Regardless of the decisions they make.

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  • princesstastic

    this is why doctor who ruined my life because i cannot travel to the stars

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  • MissDethstar

    Yeah, reality does sucks pretty bad sometimes.

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    • peterr

      But I bet you suck good all the time!

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      • MissDethstar

        Hell yeah :p

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  • peterr

    Join the armed forces. They take queers now too so you won't be alone...ahahhaha!

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  • SHAKEStheClown

    Run away and join the circus.

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