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It's okay to have a benign existence. Share your stories of the vanilla and mundane.

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Cold showers are just great (lemmy.nbsp.one)

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I have recently (re)discovered ice-cold showers. The most obvious advantage is you feel refreshed and absolutely energized for quite a while afterward.

More importantly, it is one of those things that are awful while doing them, but great after you did them. It really helps you get into the habit of accepting short term pain for long term personal benefits.

It also speaks to the tiny Stoic in me. I just realized that more often than not, I just jump under the ice-cold water of the shower instead of tiptoeing around it, as I used to. Don't try to avoid the inevitable, embrace it.

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[–] teryyyg 1 points 7 months ago

you will find it funny that my family, having lived in the philippines (tropical, blazing hot oven of a country) their entire life, still use a shower heater. it's crazier to know so many of my peers and contemporaries shower WARM/HOT. they're almost always surprised when they find out i shower cold. their filipino minds can't wrap around the thought of a person subjecting herself to the frosty embrace of a cold shower in a hot country??