Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for November 13, 2014
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Transcript:
When I was little, I enjoyed the simple things. But enjoyment is like a drug. You need larger and larger doses for smaller and smaller levels of satisfaction. A rocket trip to Mars now wouldn't give me the same thrill as catching a fly ball in a tee-ball game when I was five. You have control over these things. Why not just insist to yourself that all the pleasures of five are yours again? Pulling a girls hair! Ow! Jump in mud! Kooghies! Cookies Hyperglycemic stroke I'm sorry.
Ida No about 10 years ago
It’s all upside, baby! All upside!
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 10 years ago
That went well, I think.
emptc12 about 10 years ago
I have thought that for years. Call it the “Rosebud Effect.” Getting tickled, playing in the rain, snowflakes on the tongue, catching lightning bugs, toy soldiers, petting a dog, home-made pie, that first bike, going to the library, my first paperback books. The sensations a child likes are simple and pure. But as soon as we adults can we profit off them with TV and garish toys and junk food.
Stephen Gilberg about 10 years ago
To be fair, I don’t think I’d ever enjoy a rocket trip to Mars. That’s a dang long ride.