my endorphin management theory

i hear a lot of people say high school was the best time of their life. maybe it's actually the most painful time in a normal dude's life. when we are in high school, our hormones are jumping up and down like crazy and our instinct or biology tells us to run around hunting for food, battle rival tribes, and chase women. that is what teenage humans have been doing for the past 2 million years or 99.975% of our evolution. instead we sit in a room the whole day 5 days a week. it's only lately (.025% of our evolution) that we became civilized and started training our instinct to sit in a classroom for the whole day, so our instinct hasn't fully adapted yet.

whenever we do something instinctive or perform an activity our biological cells expect, chemicals in our body called endorphins are released which makes us feel happy. it's what athletes feel when they win, it's what a father feels when he plays baseball catch with his son, it's what artists feel when they create or perform their masterpiece, it's what i feel when i write blogs, etc.. - a mechanism that helps our species survive.

just like other chemicals in our body, endorphins need to be regularly released and replenished. if we go against our instincts these chemicals don't get released normally, so they just keep building up until it reaches a critical level where the slightest trigger mechanism would force the endorpins to explode in our system, giving us a euphoric feeling or natural high.

since most activities in high school were not natural to our biology, our endophins were stuck most of the time and kept building until it reached that critical level and when recess finally came we burst out laughing at the corniest joke. these episodes of endorphinic erruptions are the ones we remember. it's what gives us the illusion that high school was the best time of our life. of course i could be wrong this is just a crazy theory i came up with.

endorphins behave similarly to semen. normal men get wet dreams if they refrain from sex. god or nature always has a way to equalize or balance the chemicals in a normal person's body. i even think emotionally ill people like serial killers have a defect in their biological system where their body is not able to balance certain chemicals which causes them to feel intense pain and can only be balanced, released or relieved by an intense experience like killing another human being, cutting themselves, beating their wife, or getting beaten by their husband.

my theory also explains why golf is so addictive to many people. the activities you do in golf are similar to hunting - walking, focusing, trying to be accurate, etc ... so golfers are really people with the hunting genes. nature assign roles to individuals in a specie like there are soldier ants, worker bees, artistic humans that tend to be democrats, war freak humans that tend to be republicans, etc ...

my theory also explains why golfers go nuts when they hit a bad shot even if there really is no reason to since golf is just a meaningless game. it's a survival instinct nature built in to us because if we miss a shot when hunting we could go home to our tribe with nothing and our family goes hungry.

that is why even if golf is meaningless, i respect and accept my biology so i play golf as much as i can.

many of my friends and family make bad decisions in life because they do not know that the useful chemicals in our body are limited. for example - focus, quality time or energy require limited chemicals so we need to learn their limits and budget accordingly. for example you can't work 12 hours a day and expect to spend quality time with your wife and kids because even if you still have time, your focus and energy chemicals are already used up for the day so harmony of nature gets screwed up which can build up over time until it ends up ruining your family life.

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