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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 was born in 1989 and the math is HARD some days.

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[–] QueenAlucia 26 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Does anybody need to calculate their age? It's not a hard thing to remember :|

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sometimes I just forget ok? I mean it's changing every year

Also I think it matters less and less in your life. As a child/teenager you got asked for your age all the time

[–] MarekKnapek 12 points 2 years ago

It changes all the time (once per year) if you finally managed to remember it, it changes again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

As someone who is well out of the range where people need to ask for ID when I want something, I don't concern myself with my age and frequently forget since nobody asks.

On official forms, they want to know my date of birth, not my age. Everyone I know socially, doesn't care or already knows an approximation of it, thus I'm never asked. All my work colleagues are interested in is getting the job done, not how many years I've been in the workforce/how many years till I get to retirement age/whatever.

I don't think about my age for more than a few hours a year at most. I don't even celebrate my birthday. So the years come and go, and I think about how old I am so little that I often don't even know how old I am.

You're not wrong that it's not hard to remember, but when you think about it as little as I do, you tend to lose track.... So when someone asks me how old I am, I often don't reply because I'm too busy doing math in my head to try to figure it out, quietly hoping they'll move on from the question and I won't have to answer it.

[–] netvor 7 points 2 years ago

The hard part is which one will you remember. (I already had 43 different ages.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I do. I know my age roughly of course, but I very very rarely get asked how old I am, so I forget the extact number.