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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: 1

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When talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'. (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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Those seem incompatible to me.

(UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)

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

Fine. You want to quit? Do it.

[–] Ensign_Crab 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fine. You want to act like what I'm doing is easy because you already got yours? You're already doing it. I don't want to quit. I'm just not great at endurance after decades of fruitless labor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. I don't also want you to quit.

It is tiresome. Extremely. But quitting is dying. Is giving up on ourselves, on tomorrow. On something better, that we personally may not be able to enjoy, but nonetheless worthy of our toilling.

We have been played and toyed with, told we are worthless, small, a nothing. But we are not.

I can't solve your personal problems but I can emphatize with you, with your tiredness, your frustration, your anger, your sadness, your whatever. Because I am as human as you and I do not want you to feel alone. I can be as bad or worst than you but right now you need more than myself to know there are others in the world that feel as you feel.

You are not alone.

It hurts. Its hard. But you are alive and that by itself is better than not be alive. If we lay down and quit, we lose ourselves. We matter.

[–] Ensign_Crab 1 points 1 year ago

You are not alone.

I wish it were possible to internalize this.