As I get older I'm discovering this joy of being passionate about things and purposely not knowing everything about them. I love discovering and learning, of asking what if and instead of looking up an answer, trying it out and seeing what happens.
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There's this wonderful feeling when you get a group of people with the same thing they're passionate about but with different experiences and different knowledge and sharing those experiences with each other. I feel like social media has absolutely killed that experience.
Everyone wants to know everything about the thing they're passionate about, they have to have the same experience that everyone else has and it's like they've been cheated if they or someone else doesn't have that same experience.
It's really killed my enjoyment of video games and a lot of hobbies to where I've stepped away from most social media. I don't use guides I avoid advertising, I stay away from gaming events and trailers, I mostly just talk to my 14 year old nephew about upcoming games and it feels fun again.
It's fun not knowing everything about the games I'm playing, it's fun meeting people with diverse experiences and knowledge and broadening what I know while knowing there's still more out there to discover and learn. I love being able to share things with my nephew without ruining things for him.
Honestly I could apply this to diversity in life on general. It's like we all feel like we're cheated if we don't all have the exact same experience and have to know everything and that we fear the existence of the unknown because we've forgotten what it's like to actually discover something new.
TL:DR Tonberry is having an existential crisis and learning to find joy in life after decades of crippling depression in this fucked up social climate where diversity is the key to our existence
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