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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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Talked to my wife a few days ago about this and made her sad with it but she could understand why i feel this way, i said i don't want to live a long life, 50 is enough (about to be 38 btw) and if i manage to live to be 60 i'm going for assisted suicide, like why the fuck would i want to live long enough just to become someone's burden and there's really no point in "looking forward to retirement" because a) i'll be too old to enjoy anything, if i am properly mobile by that point considering my job does involve heavy lifting and b) while i am earning "decent" money for the fact that my education has no relation to my current job, this money does absolutely fuck all for retirement and will get me about 1000-1500€ per month and that's if the threshold doesn't go any higher, investments are mainly risks that mostly don't pan out and the time when there were investment opportunities i didn't have money to do anything, so i'm just choosing death.
The thing is, there's no clear cutoff when you are so old that you become a burden.
If you are unlucky, you might hit that at age 50. If you are lucky you might make it to 90 while being fully self-sufficient.