I have a fine career, been married for 10 years, etc. But most of my favorite memories are sex related, so that.
Ask HN: What's your greatest enjoyment in life?
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#192Making simple games (board or pc) for my kids and playing games with them. Knowing that your parents think of you as a good person. Being helpful to others above and beyond. Those are mine that gives me an immense sense of content.
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#193* waking up on a sunny spring morning at the weekend, with no particular plans, and successfully putting all worries and concerns about both my own life and the wider world out of my mind. I make a coffee, I watch the birds in the trees outside the kitchen window. I quietly play the acoustic guitar for a bit. Most mornings are not like this, for one reason or another.
* noticing that after much practice I've gotten a tiny bit better at something (guitar, windsurfing, bouldering, anything really), and successfully putting all concerns about comparing myself to other people out of my mind.
* spending much of the day running/cycling/hiking/mountain climbing/windsurfing, getting back exhausted, and opening a cold beer
* sitting in a bar on holiday some place, with a small group of friends
Things that on balance do not bring me contentment or bliss, despite being popular answers here:
* conversations with intelligent, thoughtful, moderately attractive women. A brief period of contentment is followed later in the day by the slightly crushing knowledge that they are inevitably at least one of a) taken b) out of my league, and usually both.
* software development. I try to find enjoyment in the problem solving aspect, but all the scrum meetings, JIRA tickets, code review pettiness, and corporate hierarchy make me want to go and live in a cabin in the woods. Outside of work I no longer wish to have anything to do with computers.
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#194I will be tad shameless & mundane: I don't enjoy working after 9-6. No great intellectual side hobbies to burn the midnight oil. For me, two things give a lot of bliss: 1. Watching a new interesting show or a re-run on Netflix, sipping a cup of coffee (or having a few drags of vape occasionally). 2. Going on a long aimless drive with country music, and stopping somewhere along the coastline to enjoy the view of sea o…
I too live in Japan. You don't have to put up with the Japanese office regimen if you don't like it. My last and current roles have been at Japanese companies and I've been able to WFH for both. No guarantee you'll be able to rid yourself of GCP/AWS though.
what is GCP/AWS?
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#195To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
hello chengiz khan
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#197Those are so very clichéd but that’s how it is. 1. Travelling - just going somewhere, taking a train ride, just being on the move, a trek, or a place even 80-100km from the city or sometimes closer; for 1-2 days, or few months at a stretch. I really feel I’m breathing more, feel like I am “alive” (I don’t know how else to say this), I feel genuinely and effortlessly happy when I’m travelling. I sleep better (!!), I w…
And why would running not be a sport?
no opponent.
not interesting to watch.
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#199I hired a boat recently and took it around the Greek Islands. Beautiful weather, calm water, nice food and music. Happiest I'd been in a long while
could u tell more? motorboat or sail? do u need a 'driving license' of sorts? what sort of costs? tia.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might be. The child lasts far beyond 20 years and within that time frame there will be ups and there can be downs. Really bad downs. A child can grow up to hate you, be your enemy, become a criminal, become addicted to drigs. It is not a guarantee for happiness. Statistically speaking though, when measured scientifically people in general are actually found to be overall less happy with kids. This is the scientifi…
Becoming a parent means that you now have a person whose wellbeing is more important to you than your own happiness. I don’t think it’s a contradiction to say (a) that I’d be happier if my daughter had never existed, and (b) that I don’t care about (a) one bit.
i'm sorry for u bro. human relationships are overrated.