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I had a comically bad day yesterday, like dropping things, almost lost my keys down the drain on the sidewalk, spilled soup at the store near a makeup section, almost tore my pants, got back from the store only to find out I was out of TP, etc.

It was more funny than anything else, like so much random trivial bad luck in one day is like something out of some 90s Tom Hanks comedy.

But there was one thing that actually annoyed me - on my way back from the store on my grocery trip, my phone suddenly went from a healthy 7% to 0% and died. I was stuck with no music for the remainder of the walk back.

Soooo I was forced to listen to the sound of well - nothing at all basically.

Just birds chirping, wind blowing, leaves rustling, all as I walked the same path I walk all the time and see the same things I've seen hundreds of times, just waiting to get home.

Don't get me wrong I love where I live and everything, it's a really cool city with good pedestrian infrastructure, I almost never even get close to a car and it's not some smelly euro village either, but seeing the same things I've already seen and having no stimuli at all, it wasn't that big a deal but it was unpleasant.

That got me thinking - I sometimes see folks not wearing earphones outside, and I've heard on more than one occasion from some acquaintances that they don't listen to music outside, and I wonder - why's that?

Why would you choose to do that?

And, what do y'all like, do, exactly? How do you deal with the monotony of your grocery trips or things like that when you don't even have music on? Do you just never get bored of walking the same roads/neighborhoods w/e day after day?

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Or maybe I just disagree with the insane amount of judgement and projection aimed at me in this thread for no fucking reason at all, after posting about something fairly common and uncontroversial, therefore I am replying with what I think.

Some of us are actually intellectually honest, we agree with the ideas we agree with and disagree with the ideas we disagree with, not everything is motivated by some animalistic desire for an argument like you seem to imply.

I'd much prefer to agree with likeminded folks or hear some well-reasoned perspectives but alas, I'm not going to agree with shit takes parroting LLM pop-psych influencer buzzword bullshit about muh stimulation muh technology in a condescending tone like I have a problem - when i never implied the opposite even though I easily could have done so and would have if I really wanted a fight - (and I would've made an art of it, too).

I will keep replying and stating my point and my case no matter how many cookie cutter morons yap about "meditation" or w/e else comes out their monkey-ass cranium.

I fundamentally don't care about any of this, but I will keep replying because I want folks here scrolling by this thread - horrified by the behaviour of the commentariat swarm - wondering what they must have smoked that people parrot pop-psych bullshit about dopamine as if it were gospel and hold up their life in a Christian heaven/hell dichotomy like a 50s housewife all clued up on what's the trendy oppressive shit to spew.

I want those folks to know that the hivemind is frail and weak and cannot stand the smallest challenge, challenge that I pose purely by existing and just saying the inoffensive and largely uncontroversial IRL things I think in a calm manner and that they are not alone in being reasonable and rational and normal people still exist out there in the world, I'm just sorry they have to read through the rest of this thought toilet of a comments section.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for proving my point.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How have I proven your point? Did you even read what I wrote? Or is that too much to ask from your buzzword spouting ass?

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

You're still here five days later trying to provoke an argument. You're proving it over and over again.

I'm sorry you're so stressed and frustrated that you feel the need to get online and fight with someone. Have you considered unplugging for a while and going for a peaceful walk?