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  • Been under 3 times. I think anesthesia is fucking awesome, it’s literally time travel.

    Need me under for 1 hour? 3 hours? I’ll never know the difference. Will I wake up feeling like I’ve been mauled by a bear? Maybe. But I skipped the mauling part.

    If there was an airline that would put me under for 9 hours of a 12 hour flight, I would gladly pay extra. Stack me in like cord wood, I’ll never know.





  • hansolo@lemmy.todaytoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldGripping
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    2 days ago

    So if 10 people are sitting around a circle, and one says they had trouble parking their car, and everyone else tells some perfectly mundane, time-filling story about a universal experience, you would genuinely thing that’s time well spent? You’d spend an hour mostly listening to people talk about “yeah, once time I tried to parallel park, and it was a small spot, took me 3 tries.”?

    And you’d rather NOT use the time to ask the person about their experience? Find out how it made them feel? Find out what they learned from the experience or how it differed from “yeah, parallel parking. That’s sometimes not easy.”? How that moment of time helped them grow as a person?

    Sure, not applicable to every single story, but I also don’t listen to podcasts where it’s 4 dudes on a panel saying the same thing over and over and over and over. “Yes, that also happened to me, because it happens to everyone.” Why not seek to learn about someone?










  • I don’t think your take is terrible, just missing something.

    I came upon a woman (no, not like…OK, maybe like that, too) who had survived some real life shit. Done therapy, blossomed into a latent wild one enjoying being free of the bad shit. I met her in her finding herself wild prime. She helped me refine my own chaotic negligent wild into a more charismatic swashbuckling wild. We validated each other and together we were better than apart.

    Her having gone through some major shit, and having had therapy to build her back up to have self-confidence, is what made her mature. The wild part was just blowing off equivalent levels of steam for a few years. You’re not wrong about the parts, but they don’t have to be in that order.