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Well, the older you get the more experiences you have. Not everything is going to feel new when you've been through it a few decades.
I'd say it's normal.
That is why I fell in love with shrooms, TBH. Psilocybin has resurrected a curiosity in me that I haven't felt in years. I just seemed that at 40 years, there aren't many situations that I haven't seen or experienced in daily life. As a side benefit, I have learned how to grow mushrooms.
Edit: haven't
Very true, I feel that. It's incredibly easy to not even realize that, too.
My only fear is I've got another 40 years to go lol
The "midlife crisis" is real. For me, it's looking for new things to do, cutting out bad habits (drinking) and am trying not to think about how life is actually all downhill from here. I am not going to buy a sports car or anything, but some healthy experimentation with psychedelics does seem to scratch that itch.
I think I rationalized my fear by understanding just how much shit I have seen and I still have another 30 to 40 years left, which is a good thing.
I was just going to comment exactly that.