I just had this random thought while lying on my roof, listening to “Young Dumb & Broke,” and being in that same state.
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From a biological perspective, emotions are motivators. They’re the reason behind behaviors. If you had constant euphoria without variance in emotion, you wouldn’t be motivated to do anything. Perhaps you would be euphoric up to the point where you starved to death. From your perspective, achieving good emotions is the point, so that’s why you feel like we should be able to have constant euphoria. From an evolutionary perspective, your emotions are just the means to get you to do stuff and the stuff you do is the point. It may not seem intuitive in our modern world where our emotions motivate behaviors that seem counterproductive all the time, but that’s because the modern world is more complicated than the prehistoric world in which our brains evolved.
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