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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.

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I hate when websites use the terms "Item arrives before Mother's/Father's Day".

Makes me want to cry, thinking about the alternate timeline where I have a normal life and no depression/anxiety.

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[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Is this really a showerthought?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

If you cry in the shower it saves on water and tissues.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Seems like a really difficult, odd thing to gatekeep. It's defined as "thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming." It's literally almost meaningless.

[–] trungulox@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

I always think of shower lights as things like: “I wonder what an animal that evolved wheels would look like”

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I had a horrible childhood and I'm not in touch with my parents, so I'm really glad you said this. I dread mother and fathers day each year. Have you found !dadforaminute@lemmy.world it's great for people like us

[–] zipsglacier@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know about that one; seems cool.

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 days ago

It's a good group hope it helps

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I really like that showerthoughts is apparently far less harshly moderated than r/showerthoughts. Posting over there feels like a mine field where the chances of getting your post deleted over a trivial mistake seem to be much higher than the chances of being able successfully post there.

I'm sure this post wouldn't have survived at r/showerthoughts and I would have missed out on it.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Problem with anxiety is that literally anything can be a trigger, that makes it so complicated (even impossible) to create a world without them.

I don't want to belittle the point that you are raising, I for myself have more then enough other anxieties to know better then that, and you have my fullest sympathies.

[–] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

yep bullshit holidays.

I'm a dad and I love spending time with my kids. I absolutely don't want them to ever feel obligated to hang out with me or buy me a card or present or anything because of some bullshit holiday.

My wife is on all the normal social media, insta, Facebook and such, and has such high expectations for mothers day because it seems to have become some sort of requirement to make a post bragging about what your family did for you on mother's day.

I hate it all so much.

I spend time with the people I love and I frequently tell them how much I love them and do things to demonstrate it too.

mother's day, father's day, valentine's day and Christmas gift giving expectations can all go fuck right off.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

As a mother I don't really care for mothers day either. Nor do I care for Valentine's day.

I am a mother everyday, and I love my husband everyday, I don't need a capitalistic holiday that requires spending money to celebrate this.

I'll take the cake on mother's day, but mostly it's for my kid and husband feel good for doing something, not because I expect it. Corpo holidays can fuck off wirh their expectations, yes

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