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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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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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Or, and hear me out, you could go back, meet a better partner and then have even better kids. It'd be at least a 50% upgrade.
This sounds like a good way to end up the final boss of an RPG
A flash of colorful light
Booted feet lightly land on the ground
Standing from the shadowy throne as dramatic music plays
"Ahh it is finally time. Face me, then, forsaken child from the alternate dimension. You are just as snotty now as you were then!"
"Also, no, your mother doesn't let you stay up past 10 to watch SpongeBob Skibi Pants. I checked."
And forever miss the children you loved and destroyed by your own actions.
speaking from experience, you get used to it.
It would be a kindness to them while only you would suffer. Seems noble.
How is that a kindness? You have no idea how good a life they have had.
It seems to me that a time traveler could know that if they wanted to.