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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Avoiding ppl is often seen as ok or good but it is also synonymous with estrangement, alienation, neglect, and marginalization. Also a form of discrimination & prejudice. Thats a lot of words with negative connotation but i meant the literal definitions
Fam if I don't talk to a stranger, that isn't neglect. You aren't owed padded, fluffy kindness by everyone :)
What do you think the word "strange" mean in stranger and estrangement? I am going to need a "vibes" dictionary in order to communicate with yall.
Thats a stretch. Everyone does not hang out with folks they don't care for and do hang out with folks they do. I liked hanging with fandom folks at fandom events but im meh to sporting events and sure as heck don't want to sit through a religious service. Its not discrimination because you go to the library over a bar but each place has a type of person with some crossover for bi types.
Look at the dictionary because i am skeptical if you are aware of what discrimination means. There is also the act of "discriminating" as in to discern what from what. I get the impression that there is "vibes" understanding of the words instead of their meaning.