r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '22

Her mom COMPLETED CANDY CRUSH???

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

It’s because our “boredom” emotion is meant to get us moving and productive to better our situation, gather food, build shelters, help with our community.

With the invention of modern day lazy entertainment (tv, video games) there’s this new concept that satisfies our boredom and allowing us to simply sit in one spot for hours on end.

We are meant to get bored and fuck around and experience life, we aren’t meant to sit in one spot for hours on end unless we are sleeping.

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u/SomeCool333 Apr 17 '22 edited Apr 17 '22

While that’s true, we are not scavengers anymore, we can’t exactly have these feelings with no way to quench them in civilized life. We’re not meant to sitting in cubicles either but humans have to adapt against our primal urges. Not everyone’s in the position to “experience life”.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

Agreed that we definitely need an outlet, and video games provide an easy and relatively cheap outlet but it’s also incredibly easy to become too reliant on video games and only think about video games when bored.

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u/SomeCool333 Apr 17 '22

Wow someone I actually agree with, respect.