Fresh clear water when you’re alarmingly thirsty.
gotta be at like 3 AM tho
Its like wine on your wedding dayyyyy
Fixed a tricky bug.
This is one of my highs too! It’s a wonderful feeling to get out of work knowing you did something great, like the implementation opposite of impostor syndrome.
Unfortunately I don’t experience it every week, or even frequently, but I guess if I did it wouldn’t be a high.
The goosebumps you get from that part of a song
For me it’s the goosebumps you get to the Goosebumps theme song.
Installing a Linux Distribution
Eating a spicy meal that is at my max tolerance such that I can continue to eat as normal. I can get a high from that 🥵😋
Generosity. The warm fuzzy tingly cozy sensation I get when I help a friend out, or even the occasional stranger, with getting a ride, or a meal, or taking the edge off an emergency expense, it never gets old.
Unfortunately not in a position to do that right now. I’m accumulating an emergency fund for making some bigger moves later…
Can’t believe no one has said “flow state” yet.
I wait tables, and I’m damn good at it. When everything goes just right on a really busy shift, it’s common for experienced waitresses to hit flow state and it’s one of many addictive patterns that keeps people, especially people with ADHD, in this job.
For those unfamiliar, flow state is a qualitative shift in consciousness that increases awareness of task-related stimuli and decreased awareness of irrelevant stimuli while speeding up reaction time, draining away uncertainty, and making every small success feel like it’s propelling you forward. It’s got some of the energy of an adrenaline rush without the comedown — flow state gracefully fades out without a crash. It’s like you just became more efficient, everything you need is right to hand, and triaging and prioritizing the subtasks in front of you becomes effortless.
It is the second-best part of my job, even better than the feeling of genuinely helping people.
Hyperfixation, where you watch a really good movie or read a really good book and it starts to color everything around you
Feeling loved and appriciated.
Excuse me for my English. Approximately one and one half meters. Smaller highs are very ordinary but higher highs scare me
Finding things for people. In another life I’d be a librarian or detective, I guess.
What’s my favorite high?!
non-drug
Aight imma head out
Wait but… what do I do with all my notes?
Being of use to someone else - something as simple as opening a door or something as hard as helping someone change a tire on the road. That karma is like a hit of the stuff I don’t do anymore.
