Smoke enough weed and you too can lose your memory once again!
There are obviously different types of children. When I was in elementary school, I made a really stupid comment about a game my friends and I were playing, and even though my friends didn’t say anything about it, my stupid comment haunted me for years, even though I was the only person who remembered it.
Strangely, I’m old enough now that I don’t remember the comment, and I don’t even remember the game.
Anyways, my memories lingered, even in childhood. But I think I had more fun back then. The highs were definitely higher, but the lows were lower, too.
Put into perspective of adult lows, the lows were usually pretty insignificant, but the lack of agency when it came to dealing with them was a lot higher compared to today, so they felt insurmountable and horrible
I’ve found that you can experience the world as a child at least one more time. If you’re older than 30 and haven’t tried weed yet, you’re in for a treat. One of the best experiences of my life was being stoned for the first time, wandering around my garden looking at leaves and bugs and stuff.
Psilocybin mushrooms can do that repeatedly, but they work so well that you won’t want to do it all the time. Seeing the world like a child is a mindfuck.
“You ever see the back of a twenty dollar bill… on weed? Oh, there’s some crazy shit, man. There’s a dude in the bushes. Has he got a gun? I dunno! RED TEAM GO, RED TEAM GO.”
I agree that there are experiences that are much more vivid because they are new. And I also think some adults get stuck in their head instead of experiencing the world.
However, if we evaluate the OP dispassionately and curiously, I think the picture is a bit more complex. For example, there are some experiences that can only be experienced when you’re older and you have accumulated crystalized intelligence.
What kinds of experiences? An example is expertise. People who are really skilled at their job experience meaning, enthrallment, curiosity, satisfaction, and play much more than people who aren’t as skilled.
Another experience that is only accessible with crystalized intelligence and experience is certain kinds of abstract play. Take something like tabletop roleplaying games. I love them. I have so much fun with them. But to play them you need to understand the English language, basic arithmetic, the character creation rules, the ways of making rulings in the game, the history that all the players in the table agree upon, etc…
All of this leads me to the original purpose, which was to evaluate the OP dispassionately and curiously. Because of expertise and crystallized-intelligence play, I think the post is not wrong, but also missing a big piece.
Also, I noticed that this community is an evolution of White People Twitter, so I’m not sure if the post is ironic or not lol
Gluck
As opposed to future memories?
