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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There’s two major factors.
Euphoria/high are caused by chemicals in our brains. It could be an event that causes our bodies to naturally release those chemicals, or it could be caused by taking drugs. Either way, they don’t persist in the body forever. Our bodies flush things through. Just like how if you eat, you’ll be full for a while, but you’ll eventually poop it out.
The second consideration is that our bodies have a baseline of “normal” that they want to return to. If something changes chemically, our bodies will adapt over time to it and make that the new baseline. For example, if I”m constantly drinking caffeinated drinks to wake myself up, eventually my body will decide that it doesn’t need to produce the chemicals to wake me up on its own, since it’s getting plenty already. It’s created a “new normal” with the caffeine. That means that caffeine that used to make me extra-awake now only makes me a normal amount of awake, and becomes *necessary* for me to feel a normal amount of awake. This is one of the reasons why drugs can be addictive–over time, they can become necessary to feel normal.
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