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Showerthoughts

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Just wondering about how my life could have touched someone else's and I realized this. Maybe you're just joking around online and mention something that triggers an idea in someone else that leads to revolutionary new things that impact humans everywhere. Even if you're forgotten, or uncredited, you had a meaningful contribution.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or something negative. Maybe you just got a job. Awesome. But you were in front of someone else. Someone who too could have gotten that job, someone who's been unsuccessful for years. And now he again has no chance. He keeps searching for a few more months, but now in huge debts, that person decides to take their life by jumping under a train. But this is only start. It gives the train driver trauma, he's no longer able to do his job that his family so much depended on. They can't afford education for their children. And things keep getting perpetually worse and worse. From 1 person, it now affects 5, which creates even bigger impact and the story could continue.

I am certainly overthinking this, but you never know.

Or maybe you just rejected mediocre artist from art school without thinking about it. You know that one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You could very well be the reason why someone hates your entire race/gender/creed/country!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Or you could be so amazing that you're the reason why someone loves your entire race/gender/creed/country!

... And that in turn makes that person hate all other races/genders/creeds/countries and spend their whole lives committing atrocities to eradicate them, so that everyone in the world looks a bit more like you.