You know that horribly dysfunctional pattern that goes
(1) Man, this ain't good. If this next (relationship/job/class/whatever) doesn't immediately grant me profound and instant satisfaction in all areas of life, I'ma just throw up my hands and say "fuck it".
(2) OMG THIS (relationship/job/class/whatever) IS THE BEST THING, AND THIS PROFOUND AND INSTANT SATISFACTION IS GREAT AND WILL SURELY NEVER END
(3) !@#$
(4) Repeat.
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I am not, thankfully, feeling this generally about life — you know, instead accepting that both good and bad things are tempered by the fact that they will eventually end — but I noticed that working on a given difficult mathematical proof makes for an excellent simulation. "DAMMIT I WILL NEVER LOVE AGAIN" is fallacious for the same reason as "DAMMIT I WILL NEVER THINK OF ANY DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THIS DIFFICULT INDUCTIVE TYPING INVARIANT FOR UNIFICATION".
I'm to understand the former is more part of the typical "human condition", though.
(1) Man, this ain't good. If this next (relationship/job/class/whatever) doesn't immediately grant me profound and instant satisfaction in all areas of life, I'ma just throw up my hands and say "fuck it".
(2) OMG THIS (relationship/job/class/whatever) IS THE BEST THING, AND THIS PROFOUND AND INSTANT SATISFACTION IS GREAT AND WILL SURELY NEVER END
(3) !@#$
(4) Repeat.
?
I am not, thankfully, feeling this generally about life — you know, instead accepting that both good and bad things are tempered by the fact that they will eventually end — but I noticed that working on a given difficult mathematical proof makes for an excellent simulation. "DAMMIT I WILL NEVER LOVE AGAIN" is fallacious for the same reason as "DAMMIT I WILL NEVER THINK OF ANY DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THIS DIFFICULT INDUCTIVE TYPING INVARIANT FOR UNIFICATION".
I'm to understand the former is more part of the typical "human condition", though.