SK7000 said:
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I am baffled that you are baffled at such innocent statements. Don't you think you are exaggerating things a little here? It's one thing to say "I like A", but you make it sound like what you are hearing is "I am absolutely crazy about A, it's the best there is!" Isn't that stretching it quite a bit?

I like videogames. Doesn't mean I will turn down parties or other social events to stay indoors until six or play every single game I can get my hands on, no matter how bad it is.

I like anime. Doesn't mean I collect it and have shelves upon shelves of it, and every weekend has to be a full non-stop marathon at my place.

I like reading. Doesn't mean I can't even talk to people because I am always keeping my eyes on a book.

I agree with your point of view that the world is vast and there are many things we can experience and enjoy. But you also must understand that our time is extremely limited on this Earth. If anything, trying to experience everything there is to experience will mean there is very little time to indulge in the things you actually enjoy.

Trying things out, and then selecting a subset of the things you really liked to focus on is not necessarily a bad decision. It means you spend more time doing things you enjoy, than spending time trying to figure out what kind of things you enjoy. True, you might miss a jewel or two for not searching harder, but it can save you from spending a large amount of time "looking" without finding anything of value.

I suppose in the end it's all about balance and figuring out what kind of compromise you'd like. Without knowing it all, all we can do is take our best guess and live with the consequences.

Don't you ever feel like, by not finding out everything, the rest becomes meaningless because your next find just ends up changing the perspective on everything you had before?

It's like saying every step I take is fun. Then I take another step, and the road I walked just became a new road because I added a little piece to it making everything a new whole. Doesn't it make sense to just keep walking then? Since it is a whole new experience, and those are quite valuable in their own regards. (I guess you can consider enjoying new experiences as subjective though)

This is the antinomy (loose analogy, didn't know the proper description) of enjoying life by walking it. The second I have fun (thesis) I want to know why (anti-thesis) but when I know why it is fun, I no longer find it fun and stop enjoying it. But when I don't know why something is fun I have the desire to know overwhelm the sensation of enjoying fun rather quickly. There's just no way to have both, and I can't find myself giving up either. Freaking circles. It's like chasing your own tail :/ , but that does make it rather hard to understand someone elses point of view. So if I did stomp down to hard on how you feel about living the way you like you have my apoligies.

An example: When I play a game (any dungeon crawler), and I figure out how the algorithm works to min/max my damage and/or efficiency my interest in the game pretty much dies. Neverwinter had a great storyline which means I can play it once in any case before it losing its value to me. Diablo III has inferno but to be honest I can't even see myself getting there as it's just too much "same old, same old". Starcraft II has been fun since there hardly are optimal solutions and random people are hard to predict. It's like reading a good detective and knowing who did it because someone forgot the spoiler tags, it kills all the fun and I know what happened so I say: "NEXT!".

Or even when I just hang out with friends. What we do usually bores me really quickly, but people I can't really figure out (the strange and weird types of people in most eyes) those I can spend a lot of time with and have a good time with. I guess that qualifies as picking a subset and sticking with it no? And I guess that also makes me kinda weird :P (which I don't find insulting mind you)

well I hope this clarified what I meant earlier. For what it's worth a lot of what you said made a lot of sense to me.