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How to retain my evening optimism? (lemmy.ml)

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Sometimes when I stay up late doing something creative I end up getting this very comforting feeling about the future. A sort of certainty that everything will work out in the end and that ~~luck~~ happy coincidences will always be on my side. If I had this sort of confidence throughout the day, I would live a much more pleasant and relaxed life. Since it makes me forget about all the hurdles I am grappling with in life, it makes excited about the future once again (like I was in my early teens before all the new responsibilities started weighing on me), and makes me want to go out there and live life to the fullest.

Does anyone else experience this feeling as well? It's always gone by the morning but if I could internalize it it could be life changing. Do you have any idea how?

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[-] phubarr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just to add a little bit more, the best I've come to manually reproducing this effect on my own is through long bouts of exercise. Maybe it's the same effect as the "runner's high". I used to be a firefighter and I'd experience a similar effect when I would spend all day outside doing PT (physical training). Come 5 o'clock, after 8 hours of exercise, everyone would be dying, and I'd be experiencing a euphoric boost of energy, and I'd help all the instructors clean up the training grounds. Whenever I'd stop, I would crash, hard. It's possible for me to feel this feeling through exercise, it's just impractical to devote 8 hours a day to exercise in order for me to feel it.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all of this info, I'll definitely comment if I find something!

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