Why Does It Feel Like Nothing Is Fun Anymore?
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In this video, we explore the often inevitable bitterness and cynicism that comes with experience and age—as well the seemingly paradoxical mindset that we can adopt to try to resist and overcome these negative responses to life.
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@volume2517
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Things are still fun on that just nobody does them anymore because they're glued to screens, watching other people do fun things online. Missing out on their own lives.
@BatBrakesBones
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Yeah I'm 38. Yeah something like this. Only thing fun is creating and adding to the whole space of other creatives
@COEXISTICALITY
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
To be aware of this body is weird and at what point did I even say that I had a personal reality? It's as though I thought a space up and met other space dwellers with a similar understanding. At what extent does existence accumulate every possibility to a point to be frozen in one point of time? Presence doesn't need validation but it is the only place which does not need to have a point. It just is
@juliejarmusik5094
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Your videos have opened my mind to so many different things. Thank you for sharing your gift 😊
@intermission1864
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Happiness is the delta between expectations and reality
@animelordd
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
25m I am done lol
@fraterolev
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Anhedony = is a symptom of sick minds and sick philosophies. Take care with what you're feeding your mind!
@onetruekeeper
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Nothing is fun because there is no time to enjoy them. Too busy worrying about money or the lack thereof.
@DBW-xq4yb
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
5:11 is a great point. It feels sad/wrong to not be optimistic but life is incredibly tough and you have to learn to to expect disappointment.
"The bigger they are the harder they fall" or "Keep your expectation low, that way you'll never get disappointed".
@steveatch
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Yeah, but other people are indeed hell. Sometimes hell is fun. Sometimes.
@1DennisK
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Damn! Great piece.
@M-hh9oo
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
yikes
@alexjohnson-nelson3977
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
I still feel joy so I’m grateful I haven’t fully lost joy yet, I rather someone unalive me if I got to that point
@peters972
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
One needs vitality and strength. Without energy all else is academic. Try Coca-Cola. It’s the real thing. Or a taste of martini, the most beautiful drink in the world. The right on, the light one, it’s martini. Lost your smile? Found a bottle of Fanta, opened the cap, whoop zing bang, my smile is back. Fanta Fantas just a bottle of fun. And Canada Dry ginger ale tastes like love. NowTHAT was epic advertising
@oliverranderson9292
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Thank you for this video.. it means more than you can imagine
@dylanbuchanan6511
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Because we cut down all the forests so we can’t go outside and enjoy nature anymore. THEN we put in place over sensitive mobs and mods on the internet where you have to walk on eggshells. So both the outdoors and indoors sucks. What a wonderful society we have.
@realCharAznable
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Because the world is going to hell and we all know on some level that there isn't much of a future to collectively look forward to. Kinda spoils things.
@KurtAngeloBaadjies
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
You didn't even mention Lukas man, or his chachi sister
@Only_flags
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Turn of your phone for 14 days. All the joy in your life wil Return to you i promise you… A simple flower will fascinate you for halve an hour
@LeRoseArts
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Technology is a blessing and a curse.
I remember always being out with friends and socializing as a kid, all through high school. Some of us had overcome a rough childhood on top of that. The excitement of technology didn’t last long as it took away our bond with one another. We stopped socializing and a lot of people now suffer from social anxiety amongst other social disorders. The list goes on and all though this one is reversible, the one that is proving to be tough to combat is the weaponization of social medias to push propaganda and hateful speech that feeds their purpose to divide us and make us hate each other. I find it hard to believe we can overcome what’s happening in the world at this time, no hope, no light.
I’ll we can do is stay aware and optimistic. We need to pursue challenges that can keep our light lit and push forward. After all all of humanity inside this rock floating through space, all we are is an atom in the most literal sense of it all.
@Noname-lk2ol
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Tell this to Logan Paul and Jake paul. They got it ALL. Lol. The reason YALL DONT is because you CRITISIZE THEM which is doing EXACTLY what this video is describing lol. I think theyre GENIUS and love what theyre doing, hence I have everything I always wanted as a kid. My dream cars, my office, my personal assistants. Because I never lost NOR do I criticize people like Logan and Jake. I get EXCITED thats ITS POSSIBLE.
@JeremiahConnally
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Just wait till ur in the middle of quitting an addiction
@jageo48
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
When we give our final exhalation, we won't recall the best day at the office, but all the love we have freely given and received without demanding reciprocity.
@BroodDude1
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
We Are: No Longer Humans.
@son.of.mutant
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
When everything is optimized, even joy starts to feel like work. Maybe that’s the real burnout.
@Candanosa
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
AKA "It is what it is"
@davidthibodeau5775
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Miserable boring depressing jealous haters losers looking for attention 😂
@leo-giordani
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
The truly successful, are almost never cynical, real success is inversely correlated the cynicism. I've never understood how the path to self actualization results in this kind of negativity.
@GearJason
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Fyp
@ListenToMeRn
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
I have been feeling this way for a year now since I was 14, I’m 15 now, is this normal?
@griam7641
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
I was depressed when I started this video, now I’m super depressed
@1boreal
October 12, 2026 at 12:51 pm
I dont feel significantly different from the person i was when i was a child. I have a much more complicated life obviously, but im mostly the same dude for better and worse.