I had my first nihilism at high school / college.

Being raised in a protective and rather wholesome environment, I naturally became full of morality and ethics as a child. This obviously changed when I experienced my late teen existential crisis, questioning the essence of life, the universe, and everything.

As a rational person, I came to the conclusion that the universe is materialistic. There’s no God, no creator, we just happened to exist. We this kind of premise, the obvious deduction is that morality is a social construct, and there’s not any intrinsic meaning to life. Morality is just the general consensus of a specific group of people in a specific time & space. Without a higher being, a creator, or a God, it’s impossible for absolute morality and an intrinsic meaning of life to exist. We view many practices that were common in the past to be immoral, and at some point in the future, we’ll be viewed as criminals for exercising something that we do every day as well.

Holding this kind of view, I continue my life as an ethical and hard-working absurdist.

The amplitude of the hedonic treadmill wave decreases with your age, like the graph below. But why?

Progressivism fundamentally means, being opened to new changes, while conservatism is about maintaining the existing rules and values. However, in real life, progressives are actually just another group of conservatives.

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追求身外之物 is what only makes sense, por que por 內心的富足, all you need to do is change the way you view things, takes like 3 seconds. However, por 身外之物, por ejemplo, dinero, career, or social status, they take lots of tiempo, efforts and luck to progress, so of course you’ll spend time on those things. If you ever get tired of them, easy, just change the way you view life, think of your life at the cosmos level. Such an easy hack doesn’t need any time or effort, so there’s literally no point in pursuing it.