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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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Some teachings say that being born as a human is as random as a blind sea turtle swimming from the ocean bottom to the top and hitting his head against a floating cork.
Why the fuck is my life so weird.
Like what are the odds I'm a second child born during One Child Policy... and managed to survive till birth? (cuz forced abortions were a thing)
So bizzare... so unreal...
What are the chance to having been emigrated?
60 Million Chinese moved overseas out of 1.4 Billion... 4.28% chance?
Having legal status is another subsection of that population, a lot of people allegedly migrate without official permission and is undocumented, I know a lot of classmates that supposedly have parents that migrated without permission.
Okay maybe it's not that rare, the "good" parts is isbalanced out by the fact that I'm a pleb... with shitty parents... yay god trolled me. Can't have too many good thing in life. Think you're safe?
bad thing happens
Citizenship Status? Think you have freedom now?
Heheheh 2024 US election happens
what the fuck
this universe is just trolling me
haha heres a good thing...
SIKE
mom: "Hey I love you very much do you know that?"
5 minutes later
mother: "YOU LITTLE SHIT"
... 🙃 what the fuck...
I wonder where my sould would be if CCP just aborted me...
fuck this shit... GIMME NORWAY PLS