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For a moment in time you are doing the exact same thing in the exact same place as someone else and are inarguably Not Alone, and waving acknowledges this shared bond tied only by your shared existence. Waving recognizes each other’s presence and affirms that you are both Real, that you see them as they see you, that you’re a perceptible being, and you each have a witness confirming you were there then. Also it’s friendly.
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making eye contact with people on the other train car when they line up between stops. i always wish i had a hat so I could nod it. may your journey be swell, stranger on the express. it was nice knowing you for our brief second of underground acknowledgement
Feb 6, 2025
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make your presence be known! if you don’t want to be an inconvenience and think you can just wordlessly slip by someone as you pass them in the grocery aisle, I ask you to think again. I feel like recognizing you and stranger are occupying the same space is a very grounding experience. Just for this moment my bubble is overlapping yours, so why not ask if you can scoot on by and say thanks! Maybe I’m too midwestern….
Feb 21, 2025
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If you wave at him he’ll wave back with the MOST enthusiasm. Then he’ll remember your face and wave at you every morning and evening. We’ve never spoken but it’s so nice to start and end my working day with a big wave and a smile :’)
Feb 17, 2025
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When I get off an 8 hour shift after waking up at 4:30 and start rethinking everything I said and feeling like everyone hates me I remember I literally don’t know what I’m talking about and am in no condition to weigh in on such things
22h ago
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The ‘sort’ feature added to Spotify playlists is antithetical to the entire concept of a playlist, which, like the mixtape, is supposed to be a well curated collection of songs delivered in order to tell a certain emotional message. Rearranging the songs into an order as banal as title or artist entirely rewrites the story I spent hours, days, months adding to and adjusting accordingly. Spotify’s so far up the binary ass of the computer overlord they’ve forgotten what human intuition looks like, forgotten the importance of irrationality in how we order ourselves and our lives. Music is an oft-used medium of the mystics, and it‘s the ineffable, un-categorizable confluence of sounds and feelings that influence god-like visions and euphoric sensations enabling a spiritual and sometimes physical transcendence beyond these mortal binds. The sort option is disrespectfully counterintuitive to the role music has always played in elevating our spiritual consciousness, and denigrates the very artists we depend on for this deliverance by reducing these feelings to a name or title and not some cosmic order we encountered as listeners in pursuit of Feeling Better.
2d ago