
…s not a game you don’t understand the rules of, or a test you never got the materials to study for. It never leaves you wondering… what you could possibly do to make it come home and stay there. It’s fucking boring, dude. I don’t walk around mired in uneasiness, waiting for the other shoe to drop… This feels safe and steadfast and predictable and secure. It’s boring as shit. And it’s easily the best thing I’ve ever felt.”
“Intimately tied to characteristic biochemical reactions occurring within the brain… dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin, and serotonin and recruit brain regions known to play a role in the… creation of feelings of pleasure, and the signaling of reward .”