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Best Experiences. Welcome to what should be officially my second episode and this
is where I think I want to get into. Hopefully this is a format of an episode
that I enjoy the most. After all, welcome to IMO, where only my opinion matters.
Best Experiences. What I'm talking about today has to do with a little thought
that I had and slowly slowly I'll be getting into my way of life and my
philosophy, which I believe is a good and healthy and happy one. That's very
subjective and as you'll understand it more, hopefully you'll agree, I am a happy
person after all. And this is a derivative thought. A friend who recently
did a great trip to Japan, which I will do soon. I am envious for, but I anticipate
when I will do it, so I'm excited for that. And that's me living in the now,
right? I'm not losing out on
hope.
Hoping that I will go, or reminiscing in the past, or focusing on the future.
I'm enjoying my now and my now involves the anticipation of going to Japan, but
that's, I diverge, that's a side note. What I really want to talk about are our
better experiences and how we could use them as a negative tool, which is odd,
right? To have something great in your life and to use it negatively. And I
don't really mean if someone has a negative mindset. I basically come at
this thinking that there are a lot of ways that we can use something positive,
maybe the wrong way. And a lot of things that I do involve how to do things for
the right reasons. And evidently, best experiences is all about that. So perhaps
when experiencing something amazing, we end up creating something unwanted for
the future. That is to say, what happens when you get to experience the best and
everything following is compared to it. And by recalling this
memory all the time, you're not only tarnishing the current
experience due to the high contrast of the two, but also
missing out in the moment, the now and the current experience.
I came to this through many times, more recently, through
imagining my friend's trip to Japan, the culinary experiences
and indulgence in every sensory stimulated moment. Knowing that
you only get to experience everything once, rapidly, at a
cost of money and time, hard availability and long planning,
the end result is a bias towards the preservation of each
moment. What a way to live life, if only we could apply ourselves
into that process for each and every experience. Or is it? So
eating the best ramen or the best Wagyu steak the world has
to offer sounds like a bucket list item to anyone. But how does
one avoid the trap of impacting every next ramen dish, every
next steak and every related experience to the one considered
the best? Even if we approach this rather scientifically,
or mathematically, say the best experience scores 10 out of 10.
What does that mean? What happens to the past experiences?
Do their score adjust? Do new experiences rank always lower?
Would they have not ranked higher if the best was absent?
So those are the thoughts that came to me, thinking about how
you can live your life with amazing experiences and live
them with better experiences, but then use these
memories as a tool to tarnish the current experience. And let me
revisit what I when I say these words, I like to use these words
memories, experiences, and knowledge. And I don't
personally, I don't necessarily like to recall my memories or
relive my experiences. I like to obtain knowledge from them. And
this is kind of like having the best
version of Alzheimer's. I don't think I suffer from anything like
that. But I can rewatch a movie with the knowledge that I liked
it. Without the memory of what happened. And with just a subtle
tone of experience, knowing that I did, and understanding what
might come, but not really remembering it. It's weird. It's
kind of like the best part of living an alter ego where a clone
of myself says you're gonna love it, and I watch it again. And I
do love it. What does that mean? It means that I don't actually
hold on to my best experiences. Because what I really do is I try
to live that moment in the now. And also the best Wagyu steak
I've ever had in my life. I know how good that was. But I can't
compare it to the steak I'll be eating right now. Because I just
don't have that ability to compare a memory sensor
or the feeling of the experience with the actual current feeling
now. In other words, if you stimulate my senses right now, my
taste buds, they are so much more significant to me in my pleasure.
You know, all the serotonin that gets released right now is
something I feel right now, the happiness I feel right now, the
experience that I'm creating around me right now, is so much
more acute and sharper and in tune with me. Whereas if I compare
that
to memory, I don't know how good that strong that memory was. So it
kind of comes back to that the past could score 10 out of 10. And
the current can score 10 out of 10. And I can't compare whether one
is better than the other because the one that I'm living right now
is always better. So objectively, it could have been 10 out of 10.
And I have to reduce this one, but I don't subscribe to the past
in that way. I live in the now with the idea that I will always
appreciate what I have right now,
more than what I had in the past, which also makes me want to
re-seek an experience and relive it but not through my memory, but
relive it by actually taking it at hand and actually going
through it and living it right now. I value the life of now
more than my past life. This takes me also to the ideas that
I have about dreaming, and about how a memory and a dream could
be equally significant, or I should say, equally insignificant.
Memories to me are not important. Experiences are, but the knowledge
of the experience is more important than the experience
itself. And neither of none of all these are significant or
important to me at all. While the one is more important than
the other, the utmost importance is my life right now. I want to
wrap this up and come and say that if you're going to use
something and compare it, you create this contrast, and you
can tarnish your now.
I want you to live the experience in the present moment.
While you're doing it, pause and appreciate and have gratitude
for everything you have in your life. And after all, no matter
how bad, objectively or subjectively you believe your
life is, I'm here to tell you that it's not bad if you're
alive. We'll go into that in another subject because it might
be a bit controversial. But coming back and having something
else and say, wow, this is not as good as that and instantly,
you know, rubber banding straight into that moment in the past.
I think it's a bad thing to reminisce and to enjoy your
memories, especially with loved ones and laughs and those
amazing moments. But what I'm saying is, don't use it as a
tool to break what you're having right now. You could do both. Or
you could be more like me. I don't know if it's good or bad.
But the now is much more important than the past. And the
future is also something I don't really like to participate in. I
love the anticipation because as part of my now, the domain and
the region of my locality.
In a fourth dimension extends a little bit into the future
because I'm trying to create something I'm planning for it.
So my right now is that. But other than that, enjoy what you
have in your life right now. And enjoy it to its fullest. And
then you might actually find that you keep rating things 10
out of 10. That's a great thing to do.
Thanks for listening to me. I hope you don't do it under my
influence or coercion. And if you like this kind of a format,
and my babbling on where I try to deliberately tone down my
divergence tactics or my ADHD as my undiagnosed self would say,
then let me know. Bye.