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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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[–] slazer2au 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That is what happens when you consume dihydrogen monoxide daily. No one has survived after drinking it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oxygen makes iron turn into rust, don't let that be your lungs. Oppose Big Oxygen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@Jamie @slazer2au Big oxygen is crazy 💀😭

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And those fuckers give it to us as soon as we're born, ensuring our inevitable demise

What a sick cruel twisted world

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Around seven percent of people who've consumed dihydrogen monoxide have survived.

[–] ArianaGrande 3 points 1 year ago

It has a higher pH level than any known acid!!!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might as well fucking go for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looking good! The t-shirt as well.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Has anyone in their 30s 40s 50s had a sudden change of perception of our own mortality? I found myself thinking a lot about it recently (no significant events around me). I just find life so ephemeral now as compared to how I used to see life so grand and long it might as well have been infinite. Not anymore. I guess it's part of growing old. Anyone else feel similar?

[–] 6mementomori 9 points 1 year ago

in my case it happened much sooner, at 16 to be exact

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yep. IMO it's a good thing. But there's still a grand and long scale: how is that we arrived here at all, a momentary ripple in a larger fabric?

[–] Cryophilia 2 points 1 year ago

More the opposite direction for me. I'm so stressed, overworked, and beaten down by life that I don't have the energy to worry about mortality like I did when I was younger.

When I die at least I won't have to go to work anymore, is my thinking.

And I like my job, I can't imagine what it's like for people who don't.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You will someday lose your life, but try not to mope. You did get it for free, after all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Childhood is the free trial, adulthood is the subscription that keeps increasing in cost.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 5 points 1 year ago

Could you not, right now? I'm literally just about to sign a new lease.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not moping. I AM ALIVE

[–] sebinspace 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I intend to live forever, thank you very much

[–] surewhynotlem 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too. We should get to know each other. Eventually. We have time.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

WE'RE DOOMED!

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

[–] Cabrio 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I feel isn't existential dread of my pending non-existance. What I feel is FOMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What I feel is a need to fire arrows into the future, that I know will fly further than my small personal life, that will land somewhere and sprout huge trees that people live around and under.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're screaming in the shower?

[–] AceBonobo 10 points 1 year ago

You're not???

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 8 points 1 year ago

I refused. Y'all know you can opt out, right? Don't ask how. That's not allowed.

[–] tdawg 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it weird that I've become less existencial with age? Like back in school I struggled with suicidal thoughts and couldn't cope with the "meaninglessness" of it all. But honestly these days I'm content just living how I like to and enjoying the simple things

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not weird, happened to me too.

I think my brain got bored of it and moved on. Plenty more to do than attempt to answer the unanswerable question!

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

Maybe? I never really grew out of it, my brain just realized that emotions don't solve problems and stopped bothering me about it all the time. Though, my fears are more along the lines of forcefully being prevented from dying, rather than the alternative. Still get the chills whenever I imagine having dementia and not being allowed to kill myself.

I'm not suicidal anymore, but still. There are things I'd rather choose the forever-sleep than experience.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] who8mydamnoreos 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Life is finite, but shit it feels like forever

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s longer than the longest time you’ve ever experienced.

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

Unless you happen to live an entire simulated lifetime because of an alien probe.

[–] Donnywholovedbowling 2 points 1 year ago

But do I get to learn and inherit an instrument?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The days are long but the years are short, it’s been said.

[–] MargotRobbie 5 points 1 year ago

First time having thoughts of death?

It's fine, you'll get used to it. Making a movie about it helps.

[–] FiFoFree 5 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself.

[–] scarabic 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. In the grand scheme it’s pretty much already happened. I mean sure, you get a little bit of time to say your goodbyes and enjoy some final yayas. How are you going to use it?

Welp, back to work.

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[–] Hoomod 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're all dying at different speeds

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Except that guy that fell into the black hole. He just looks frozen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully it’s a cool death, like a public beheading or a space travel accident.

Knowing my luck it’ll be death from boredom or something..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why not both?

Why not a mysterious spinning saw blade that’s been in orbit for ten years that comes out of nowhere while you’re giving a space walk and talk to a bunch of other astronauts, slices your head off, and is out of radar range before anyone grasps what’s happening.

So astronomically fast is this saw blade traveling that it imparts almost no momentum to your head, except a gentle nudge that sends your grimacing head slowly upward. It gets almost a foot away from your shoulders before people realize something is wrong.

[–] trashgirlfriend 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally I am living on indefinitely as an information ghost.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except for me
You know why?

'Cause I had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely true, use every day.

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