"Almost out of shampoo, better add it to my shopping list."
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That would make sense, wouldn't it?
That just isn't how my brain works. If I put a thing down, unless I am super hyped about it or it is urgent, I will forget about it. If I become aware of it again and it still isn't urgent, I might pick it up with the intention to put it in the proper place but get distracted and put it in a new temporary place because something else more urgent is going on. I will occasionally remember that it is in a specific place and I'll be like "oh I should move it to the right place/fix it/tidy up/other" and I will forget about it again because something else is happening or I am at work or somewhere, where I can't do anything about it right now.
My spouse and I have some strong suspicions that I have undiagnosed ADHD, but in the milder end. It is what it is. All you can do is do the best you can and try and find ways to improve. The problem is that no matter how much I work on these things, I will never get truly better. I can get better in one area and then crash and burn in another so I kinda pick which area I want to work on and accept that I will be a train wreck in another.
It is either that or you go buy shampoo, then put it somewhere in the house where you forget all about it and go buy another and forget all about that one too and then you run out of shampoo and are like "oh fuck, I need to buy shampoo" and you manage to remember and come home with a third bottle and then the others start popping up in weird places over the following days.
I am at the end of one such misadventure. I am almost finished with bottle number two and bottle number three disappeared from the kitchen for weeks and reappeared recently in my couch and I put it in the bedroom so I am reminded of it's existence everyday now. Eventually it will find its way to the bathroom.
Everytime I'm at the store and I pass the shampoo aisle I have to remind myself that Mr couch shampoo is still very much full and very much on its way to the bathroom.
That, and more energy. I swear something got fucked up at the factory when they made me. I'm a terrible scandinavian. I am prone to pretty intense winter depressions and I'm not a fan of the cold either. I have been so far down the dumps during the winter seasons that I have blacked out entire months and have no memory of what I did and my spouse is like "yeah, you basically spent two months sitting in the same corner of the home when you weren't working, just looking gone, dude." And when I have winters where I feel like I did pretty good and didn't get depressed my man still goes "yeah, nah. You were depressed af. Just not vacant this time".
On the flipside I have been giddy like a kid walking for hours in flip-flops in Mediterranean mountains, getting slow cooked by the summer sun. I remember last time I was visiting Greece with my parents and we walked all morning until noon to get to a nice little beach across the mountains and a couple of locals saw us coming and were fucking horrified that we had come all that way on foot, lol.
The other side of that coin is that people also tend to learn from their parents mistakes and at least avoid some of the negative patterns that came before.
No one can be a perfect parent, but most parents try their best to give their kids a good childhood and then there are some who should have never had kids in the first place.
A bit of nuance is in order, else poems lile that one just feels too fucking childish for me to take seriously. It reeks of I'm 14 and this is deep.
I actually like that the sun doesn't set until like ten in the evening where I live. It also starts rising at 3 in the morning. I love it. I prefer this to depression season the other half of the year xS
Was just about to mention milo and Otis. I loved that movie as a kid. Felt pretty bad rediscovering it as an adult.
I remember having a discussion woth someone many years ago who vehemently insisted that mental illness didn't exist until the late 1900s and that nobody were mentally ill nor dealing with disorders before psychology was invented. His conclusion was that mental illness and disorders were made up by psychologists to make money off of people.
Some levels of stupid are so severe that you just can't do anything but sit and stare in disbelief after awhile.
Weirdest thing for me was when I recently listened to a radio program where an expert in Vietnamese culture and history talked about the Vietnam War and how the Vietnamese feel and think about the American part of it and almost universally they are all like "meh, we have dealt with worse"
Meanwhile it seems like the American consciousness think of the Vietnam War as almost a national scar akin to 9/11.
It is of course a simplification of what was talked about in that program, but it really stuck with me how over it the Vietnamese were because they have dealt with injustices far worse than that war and besides America became their ally later so why even worry about that?
Really shows you the differences in mindset. Americans hold on to the past like it's a lifeline while most other places we kinda just deal with shit and move on. I for one hold no grudges against Germany and my country has mostly forgotten or moved on from occupations and other historical wars because there were so many of those and everybody fought everybody in Europe back in the day so whatever man. Moving on. We technically have a tradition where we are supposed to put candles in the windows on the day we were freed from the Germans. My dad is old enough to remember that day and how people ran through the street with our flag and yelled "the Germans have surrendered".
But today most people forget to put candles in the windows and life has moved on. We do remember what the war was and what it meant, but we just don't feel the need to hold on to it like that.
If ww2 had happened to America the same way it happened to Europe, they would have made it they whole identity and pissed and moaned about it still. We would never hear the end of it. Instead they got to spend a few decades gloating about how awesome they were and how they saved the world from the nazis, lol.
"You would all speak German right now if it wasn't for us" completely ignoring the fact that a good number of European countries speak German and a many others learn German in school for practical reasons.
Wait... people actually think that incognito means that they don't record your searches??
I thought everybody knew that all incognito does is preventing your searches from showing up in your search history.
Did anyone actually think that these big tech companies would willingly give you an option to keep your searches private from them?
Hello????
Always assume that everything you do online is being recorded and seen by someone. Unless you're a master computer wiz or whatever the fuck they call it these days, ALWAYS ASSUME YOUR ACTIVITY ONLINE IS PUBLIC.
I left social media earlier this year. Lemmy is my transition platform. I hope to eventually drop off the internet entirely except for job and practical related things.
You just gave me the biggest flashback to a comic made by Endling.
What a blast from the past.
I have been here for a few months and Lemmy is gonna disappoint you too, my friend.
I hate that one because I hear both of them at the same time Dx feels like pure insanity.
It was always black and blue, but I've always found it fun to switch back and forth between which color combination it was. It was also a fun phenomena, but I don't like that it was ten years+ ago now. Time moves a bit too fast.
I'm glad to hear that for your father! ❤️ my dad has also been a little project-machine gun since he retired. He is always doing something, which is awesome to see.
Personally, I know that if I was given all the time in the world like that, I would wither and feel completely hopeless. I don't have a drive to start things if it is only for myself. For me, working is a relief because I'm needed by others and I feel a purpose.
One of my saving graces with being born into a time where retirement seems to become a myth for my generation and younger, is that I really like working. I look to my mom who has failed at retiring 6 or 7 times at this point and I just know that that will be me if I live that long. I dunno if I could ever sit back and be like "I have done my part, now I get to chill until I die".
I would honest to God become suicidally depressed, and holy hell am I glad my brain is wired like that because feeling the opposite way in this current state of the western world must be a nightmare. If you hate your job and hate working and just want to be able to retire someday but you most likely never will due to the state of the world, I feel so fucking sorry for you. That sucks.
To me Wilson will always be a bloody handprint on a ball, slowly drifting away from a weeping Tom Hanks. Any bad Wilson out there is neutralized by ball boy's goodness.
Thank you thank you x) used to get really mad at myself for being an idiot with most thing but now I'm just kinda owning it. My spouse is super chill with my weirdness, so at least nobody is affected negatively by it. He mostly laughs when he discovers my newest dumb thing. Most recently he discovered where the plastic bag clippies had disappeared to.
These things!I had accidentally and over time collected all of them in one corner of the apartment like a squirrel stashing nuts for winter. He thought it was very funny.