Imagine being this smug when yourself.
Hello my morniggas
Larry, I’m on Ducktales.
I’ll decide what makes me happy and what I need, thanks mate.
Omg naps… I get like 2 per year. 2 more if I’m sick.
I realized I needed to change my life when I broke my collarbone and those 2 weeks of not doing much were so outrageously enjoyable
Sooo being a Hobbit? Yeah I’m good with that
The other morning my dogs woke me up way too damn early, but it meant I got to watch a very fat pigeon on the power line behind my house, and I got to see the finch population rapidly increase around it. (I swear I saw one little bird and by the time I got out of bed there were 5 jetting around. Pigeon did not move.)
I agree that these are luxuries for a lot of people. Some of them can be found with mindset shifts (from “fuck you dogs” to “oh look, pretty birds” for example) but it’s also hard to shift your mindset to positivity when our society tries its damnedest to beat happiness out of you.
I’m on the fence about hearings birds singing. It is really annoying to get woken up way too early by a bird who just knows two tunes and sings it over and over and over again. Like what the fuck?! Didn’t they teach you a third tune at bird school to make your song a bit more melodic and less irritating? Fucking twitter.
There’s this big male cardinal who lives in my rhododendron. He’s not the problem. The problem are the loud, brash younglings who show up and try to muscle in on his territory. They start before dawn, screaming at the top of a tree, making up for their lack of style with sheer volume.
Plus they sound like fucking car alarms. The Big Boy has a gorgeous call, and perches on the fence between the houses to take advantage of the acoustics, and starts at least an hour after dawn because no lady wants to be woken up early by a fuckboy.
He must be back early this year because there’s only been one asshole bird who woke me up.
Gigachad birb. O7
Whenever I see him in the summer he’s got at three or four females following him around.
The birds here are really confused lately and have just been singing all night without a break, it’s driving me crazy.
Light pollution?
You do need time and money, apparently.
Yeah I think it’s been found that there is a sweet spot for income and happiness. Having billions of dollars won’t make you any happier, but I think it’s something around $120K per year that provides everything needed to have a happy life without having to stress much about paying the bills.
Unfortunately the vast majority of people fall way below the level of income needed that’s necessary to be able to have a stress free long walk and a good conversation that’s not about how to make ends meet, etc.
That figure heavily depends on cost-of-living in your area. Somewhere between 1x and 3x your local living wage is a good starting point. https://livingwage.mit.edu/
Interestingly, my personal calculations agree with that general figure.
Most of these should be rights
This. Especially in modern first-world nations. There are plenty of resources for the wealthy to still be wealthy and everyone to have at least economic security.
everything on the list requires money. but I get the point you’re trying to say
I didn’t realize I needed money to sleep well… Or to have a slow morning… Or to listen to birds sing?
Even in third world countries you’d have this…
A lot of people cannot get a good night of sleep because they have to wake up super fucking early in order to arrive at their work on time. A number of them might then go from work straight to classes (like a cheap college-level graduation, in hopes of getting a better paying job sometime in the future), so by the time they get home, their free time is spent caring for the home and prepping for tomorrow. Even those that have “free nights” may not end up spending that time for leisure
Birds singing are rare in big cities. You know, the so called concrete jungles? They’ll have a number of pigeons and sparrows, but depending on the city, the lack of trees means that’s the only 2 kinds of birds you’ll see or hear, period.
People are missing the forest for the trees. These are luxuries yes, but missing every single one of them is an extreme poverty of life as it’d be extremely hard to do.
Hard to have a slow morning and day naps when you’re rushing between two jobs because you don’t have money.
If you had money, you could be more selective in finding work that provided the balance and flexibility needed to appreciate the things in life that are free.
But all of these things are too expensive when you’re time-poor, and most people are time poor because they’re desperately trying to avoid being financially poor.
We’re talking about a very small amount of people who have to work multiple jobs 7 days a week, with many more poor people who don’t do that.
And you didn’t cover the birds singing, which you can do pretty much any place…
My god you are clueless. Have you moved out of your parent’s home yet? I’m just curious where you are in your life? If you moved, were you given a stable and well funded childhood? I’m just trying to understand the disconnect.
Yeah I’ve lived out of home for close to 2 decades.
I think people here are being extremely dramatic if they say they never are able to sleep in or never have a chance to hear birds singing though, or to watch a sunset. That is absolute hyperbolic bullshit.
Unless this post is about doing it every day (which it isn’t), then everyone gets to enjoy these luxuries at least semi-regularly.
I think you’re underestimating how much labour the global poor perform in a 24 hour period, 7 days a week.
But yes, many of these things can be possible if you prioritise them for your mental health, my point is just that it’s not always easy to prioritise mental health when you’re focused on physical survival.
But obviously, if you can include these things in your routine, you absolutely should, there are virtually no downsides.
I don’t think I am actually.
I think it’s almost impossible to miss every single one of these all the time. I have worked with the extremely poor, and watched documentaries of people in third world countries regularly. Most people even those who are literal third world slaves (indebted for life) can still regularly enjoy at least 2 of these things regularly.
I’m not saying it’s not shit and that ideally everyone should experience all of them, but it’s unrealistically cynical and nihilistic to think everyone poor is just miserable and doesn’t enjoy anything.
Stress ruins everything
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That’s just good anti-capitalism practice, so yeah that tracks.
Oh fuck off
When I read this, my dyslexic read luxuries as linux
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These are great but aren’t colorful sunsets (at least in part) a side effect of air pollution? ;)
Or when blood has been spilled that night
Sailor’s delight
I don’t think we should consider these as luxuries. They should be the base experience
We have made it so that having the freedom to choose, a most basic human need, feels like doing incorrect stuff.
Like, just choosing to leave a relationship subjects you to so much pain and hate that you’d rather not do it.
It sucks, but sadly a lot of these things are luxuries. Some are getting better but others worse (for example, there are less birds now than in the past, or at least it seems that way).
But do you understand how much money you can make if you make them paid Add-ons or subscription based?!?! Think of the money! Think of the riches!
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$29.99? Must’ve been a formatting issue because there should be some more numbers out front or at least tell me we’ve got a premium solution with a 60% guarantee
Good point. Disregard my earlier comment
love my slow mornigs
I know you’re making a joke about the typo but low key slow mornings are for sure one of the greatest subtle pleasures of life
I agree lol. had one today myself
