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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.

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It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Mr_Fish@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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I had this thought after remembering one time that my DT (digital technologies) teacher at high school suggested that some of the class could try join a hacking competition. Nothing ever came of it, but I thought it was interesting at the time.

What's really interesting is seeing the choices I made, and asking "what if I did the other thing". Just off the top of my head, I could be still at uni doing research on maths or physics, I could be working on designing new robots for who knows what, or branching off even earlier, I could have been a doctor like my parents.

I'm only 24, so it seems like I might be a bit young for this kind of thinking, but there's still a lot of things I could have done differently.

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago

Yeah. It was even worse that I’m 3,000 miles away from them and wasn’t able to do a thing to help either. But even when I wasn’t- neither of them wanted any help. I guess maybe I just wishfully think that in the end- they would have taken it, but then again, intrusive thoughts tell me that they were both intentional.

The worst part is- I’ll never know either way.

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