I'm so tired.

This post is certainly outside of the norm of shower thoughts. I think in general people want posts that score a little higher on the scale of funny and interesting. Taking the sidebar strictly:

Does this thought pop into people's heads? yeah, probably
Is it lighthearted? Not really, but its friendly.
Is it clever? No
Is it true? Yes

Exist out of spite. The terrors persist, but so do I.

Thanks, idk if op needed this but I did
At this point I'm convinced that the terrors are persisting out of spite for me, personally.
- Welp terror gonna terror, i guess. Hence the existing out of spite!
Ooh, I like this. Thanks!
I like this. Let's do it.

Take a week. Avoid any social media, news, etc. as much as you possibly can. Try to get out in nature by going for short walks and just focus on doing things you enjoy (or try something new). Yes, the world keeps going - but you need to recharge your batteries, my friend. Take. A. Break.

This is the way.

You’re not alone.

I'm with you dude (virtual hug)

Thank you.

He hears the silence howling

Catches angels as they fall

And the all-time winner

Has got him by the balls

Oh, he picks up Gideon's Bible

Open at page one

I said, God, he stole the handle and,

The train it won't stop goin'

No way to slow down

Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

I've never heard this song, but it can be sung to the tune of Folsom prison
- Mind blown
Nice deep cut

A couple of years back I fell asleep at like 8 PM and slept through to 6:30 AM. Then I fell back asleep around 8 or 9 and slept until noon. When I woke up I didn't feel tired at all. This had been the first time I felt like that in I don't know how long

I was only awake for nine hours of yesterday and it was great.
I slept nearly 12 hours last night, woke up, had a panic attack, then took a nap for four hours.

Woke up, put on The Elephant Graveyard Radio Hour, danced and cleaned my house happy.

It's also been a long time since a nap like that worked so well. Sometimes ya just need to sleep.

Same, fellow human, same.

I'm tired boss

That's just the impending clinical depression creeping in.

Nah, I've had many depressive bouts (bi-polar). This is more like I've given up on the world post-Trump-2. I'm checked out to avoid the depression. One could argue this is still pre-depression, and I wouldn't argue back. But it's not yet depression. I note that you said creeping… I'm distinguishing between them.
- yeah, I know what you mean.

Omg twinsies except for the doing well and having a good life part.

Me too bruh

Burnout.

We're all scared, it's the human condition. Why do you thinks I put on this tough guy facade? Now, beat it!

My dream is to one day become that wise old person you climb a mountain top to visit and to have them bestow wisdom upon. You're not alone, friend. But, taking breaks, even if it's as short as watching a funny movie, reading a good book, or sitting in a park with some coffee or tea. Pouring out a cup as it's being filled , even it's a little bit, will stop it from overflowing.

"I have a good life[...] The world is so terrible" screams "I engage with social media toxic to my mental health" to me but my context of your existence is 3 sentences so...

Take that as advice or criticism but the world has never been perfect and certainly will never be as close to perfect as the funnel of negativity online echo chambers and recommendation algos can be

If you have a good life, and you're fine with loads of your neighbors not having a good life, you're a psychopath.

I promise you, if you're American, there are people struggling to find their next meal less than a fifteen minute drive from your door.
The only social media that I use is Lemmy. True that I've self-selected news and politics (among other topics), so I see a lot of Trump2 bullshit. I no longer read the articles to protect my mental health. I read the headline and maybe skim the beginning before I move on.
- Unfortunately, sometimes that's all it takes, especially when not diluted by opposing viewpoints, but let me--without any knowledge of the specific contents--take a crack at countering the negativity bias of those narratives:
  
  30% of the global energy generation comes from renewable now
  
  Social media is bringing the demand for better public transit to a fever pitch
  
  Trump 1 has a lot of news sources careful to investigate claims before platforming whatever a US president says because "who would abuse that power?" (anecdotal and European bias here but many of these outlets are accessible online for free)
  
  America may finally be joining the modern world with HSR between Canada HSR, that California project and the one connecting LA to Vegas (some rumblings about importing the Shinkansen to connect the Texas Triangle, too)
  
  If these sound relevant to what you're used to seeing, I'd recommend asking yourself if any of the communities can acknowledge improvement, in other words: if you're following a (hypothetical) community called "Don't Kick Puppies" because who wouldn't support that cause, well not only did you just sign up for a stream of puppy kicking content but one moderated by somebody invested in convincing people the issue is a pressing concern regardless of what the data indicate

It's all by design. I try to keep it only in my peripheral and I stay far away from Uber Socials.

Hello darkness my old friend, I have come to speak with you again..

I was never one to analyze dreams but I thought it was comical a couple weeks ago I told someone I have repetitive dreams where I am just hanging out in an empty parking garage at night. Just grey cement, don't really know what floor it's on, not the bottom, not the top. Throwing a ball around with a couple people I don't know or can't even see. The ball rolls down the ramps when someone doesn't catch it and we spend most of our time running back down to fetch them. At no point in time am I ever trying to change what's going on, the conversations are just blurs of nothing worth noting. Yet I still don't want the dream to end and have to get up so I keep pushing it forward.

Not till they mentioned that interprets to feeling worried/ stressed, stuck, and unmotivated did I ever consider, well yeah... Of course that's what that means. I haven't had that dream since, but it was comical to take something I was blatantly ignoring and putting words to it.

Not saying any of it has real merit, just conversing

Same

Relevant song: https://youtu.be/jDceI1yiwbc

And from the same artist, something that I try to keep in mind: https://youtu.be/u4pjTV1pyGE

Wish I had some clever anecdote that helped. All I can do is summit as many mountains as I can until the air is unbreathable and do my best to force myself to take the long way down.

Why have I never heard of this artist/group? This is like DJ Shadow and Del the Funky Homosapien did a collaboration, and I mean that in the best possible way.
- E&A are legit, for sure. One of the best lyricists.
  
  Some unfortunate news, though... Eyedea died in his sleep in 2010. The 3 albums we have are all we'll get. We lost a good one.

Are you eating enough fibre?

I consume a pound of hickory every day, is that enough?
- Eat a pound of flesh too

Define doing well, and good life? How much free time do you have? How does your work/life balance stack up?

Wrong sub, but I agree with you wholeheartedly Every single word of it.