<p>I don’t really look forward to anything anymore…</p>
<p>I’m probably the leechiest that I’ll ever be in my life. I have the most freedom that I’ll ever have in my life (while I’m still prime and not next to death). I don’t have any hope for a FUN non-online social life anymore (the social lives that adults have are lame - it’s no mistake that younger animals play A LOT MORE than older animals). I think I may be starting to reach my intellectual limit - which makes learning a lot less fun. >.< I could fall madly in love with someone, but that’s likely to be temporary and non-lasting (and it’s unlikely anyhow). Besides, I’m probably the smartest and healthiest that I’ll ever be in my life. I’m going to have to be responsible for myself a few years from now. and while a “job” may be fun for some, it’s seen more as a chore than a “job” for most people (which is true for most!)</p>
<p>I could look forward to new technology, but I doubt it will progress significantly enough to impress me in my lifetime. So then what? mehhh…</p>
<p>James Watson makes academia seem funner than I used to think of it as, but academia is so arbitrary and hard to get in (and chances are that i wouldn’t have as much fun as he did anyways)</p>
<p>I know what my parents do for fun. Hell, they don’t really leave the house very much. So they just watch movies/TV and go on vacations. Wow, how exciting.</p>
<p>Most other people don’t do anything fun. It’s pretty clear what most adults do for entertainment. It falls under these departments:</p>
<p>1) drinking
2) vacations
3) movies
4) nightclubs
5) sex
6) raising children
7) gossip about coworkers
8) cooking
9) eating at restaurants</p>
<p>all you really need is a little vacation guide to see what adults do for fun. Wow, visit the zoo, how exciting!!111one. the derogative comments children make at any vacation are more exciting than the vacation per se. put a bunch of adults together, and they aren’t going to play around - like children would. </p>
<p>But seriously, while I cannot necessarily know for certain whether I would dislike these things UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES AT ALL TIMES, I generally do have a general idea of the stimuli redundancy of those activities (and stimuli redundancy + expected results) - and the stimuli redundancy of them is extremely unsettling.</p>
<p>Perhaps what most teenagers do aren’t terribly exciting either (after all I was a loner in my summer camp and hated the mandatory fun - somehow I liked to socialize with adults - that was back when I was so prefixed on asking questions and more questions and more questions - somehow, the Internet has supplanted that as I lost my trust for people). But there is actually a lot of research to show that video games are A LOT more intellectually stimulating than pretty much any other leisure activity (other than actively studying or exploring the world).</p>
<p>They probably would have remained so if companies like Maxis didn’t cater to the masses and release 10,000 Sims expansions that all are the same thing.</p>
<p>I USED to have a social life - up to 5th grade. That was when we went to each other’s birthday parties, played laser tag, made our own websites and signed each other’s guestbooks, and made all sorts of sarcastic comments. Oh and the elementary school social scene was entertaining too.</p>
<p>Clearly they must find such activities fun (or at least worthwhile), if they invest so much time in them. There’s probably something in such activities that you’re just not seeing. Often, it’s not the activity itself – it’s the people you do it with.</p>
<p>I find problem sets fun. But that’s because I do them with my best friends.</p>
<p>Clearly though, there are differences between people that make some of them fun and some of them not fun.</p>
<p>I know people who detest movies, no matter how many times they’re forced to watch them.</p>
<p>Context matters. But oftentimes, you’re only allowed to access a limited context since you don’t have all the resources in the universe (for example, I can’t create 100 clones of myself). It’s theoretically possible, but that i can’t do it restrains the context that I can do it in. </p>
<p>But some activities naturally restrain the actions you can do (sports and movies tend to do that).</p>
<p>I actually do understand the obsession behind baseball statistics frex. I used to be obsessed with stats for the Colorado Rockies. Nowadays I just see it as boring. Why? Why do people find excitement and fun? One reason is because people have “socializing modules” that make socializing intrinsically fun (for most). But the modules are not constructed (or connected) in the same way for most people, which is why people with antisocial or schizoid personality disorder may not find mutual activities rewarding for example.</p>
<p>Finally age restrains context. One reason why I’m so age conscious and obsessed with calorie restriction (it decreases testosterone and does delay puberty) is that looking younger would make it more okay for me to act like a kid. Clearly, 20 years from now, if I want to act like a kid, I’ll be accused of pedophilia. And kids do behave differently from adults.</p>
<p>That being said, considering how pro-Internet I am, I probably could do something like assume an alter ego so that I can be 13 years old again.</p>
<p>It helps to have friends, they seem to make activities a bit more fun. Schedule a weekend where you have no commitments. Buy an eight ball…kill the eight ball. Fun weekend.</p>