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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

My only hope for this dreadful life is that when it's all over, I can look over my stats. Hours sleeping, flies killed, time spent playing video games, etc.

Ooh number of people interacted with. That'd be interesting.

[–] phonics@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

id like to see stats for near death encounters

[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

As I‘ve companied some of my relatives already in their last weeks and days, I can say it’s different.

Karma comes into the game indeed. When your entire energy level slowly fades (around 10 yrs before) you experience a reflection of your character. Your brain just hasn‘t the power to establish s will/ strong conciousness/ whatever tells you the story you wanna get seen be others.

If you‘ve been a happy and joyful person, your surroundings will be nice and happy. A rather moaning or aggressive character wil find itself in a sort pf hostile environment.

It‘s how you interact and interacted with the people around you and how those people react on you.

Your thoughts in this phase won‘t be about Dashboards and numbers, but memorable experiences. I doubt it will be computer games, bro.

My honest advise: You better start collecting nice and joyful experiences now. I‘ve seen quite some moaning, aggressive oldsters and it’s a pity how they live.

[–] fakir@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago

Lovely comment. People live their entire lives maintaining a facade that they don't have the mental bandwidth to maintain as they age. Just maintaining that facade eats up your mental processing capacity. Moral of the story, drop the facade, drop the mask, embrace and be yourself, and live freely.