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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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Couldn't you just go back in time and correct the stuff that wrecked the marriage in the first place? Or surely at least navigate to a more amicable divorce?
oh yeah, "just fix them" that's easy.
I read it as correcting their own bad actions.
it takes two tango
And yet sometimes it only takes one jerk.
What if they weren't the one who made bad actions other than misjudging their partner?
That's a good point actually, the divorce process is all high emotions and accusations in the heat of it, but doing it with a clear rational head that comes only with time would help with the regrets
Someone should invent a time machine service that transports your future self back in time to the divorce proceedings, whilst present you goes into stasis until the whole thing blows over
I mean, every single time travel story ever has contradictions like that. One of the most famous is "Back to the Future", which when you think about the details of how time travel supposedly works, makes no sense at all.