thread: 2006-07-27 : 10 Observations from my Berlin trip
On 2006-08-01, ffilz wrote:
re: Evident enthusiasm vs reported enthusiasm
I've seen that myself, and experienced it. I've been really gung ho while doing some activity, and then on reflection, decided it was totally lame.
One thing that can cause this is when on reflection, you realize that the "cool decisions" you though you were making, and were grooving on, were actually meaningless. Another is that you were really grooving on some aspect of the experience, and then realized that was totally not what the activity was about. There can also be crowd excitement, that upon reflection can be shallow (these last couple examples have me thinking about concerts and food at fairs and carnivals and such).
Frank
