I am starting to think that Anhedonia is a rational realization not a fault
I really don't understand where people derive the motivation for them to be working and doing repeated stuff everyday non stop, or watching things or playing games or taking a walk that gets them nowhere.
There is simply and inherently no joy in life by default, no euphoria, no pleasure but only pain and struggle, and those who seem to be enjoying themselves are either young and never experienced life long enough, are in denial or are chasing after illusions. It's not like there is something wrong with anhedonic people. We are just mature people who understand the reality of existence.
Besides in childhood when everything is new to us the only thing that makes people enjoy something is when they are convinced that it will take them somewhere, but never for the act itself. No one takes pride in the process and everyone wants only the results and even those results are processes to get more results and it goes on and on. Basically just illusions that save them pain, even what we used to think is entertaining when we were young and enjoying things. We only thought that life will carry more but we've realized the package is too small and fun is limited.
It's not that life is joyful and people with anhedonia miss that part of it but rather life is joyless and people with anhedonia have just become completely conscious of it and no longer fooled by the illusions of nature.
Sigmund Freud said this: Life as we find it is too hard for us, it brings us so many pains and impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative measures or auxiliary constructions. There are three of these methods, powerful deflections which helps us make light of our misery, substitutive satisfactions which diminish it, and intoxicating substances which make us insensitive to it.