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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDidn't know where to post this. What this fella
is saying in words how I'm feeling, but could not express in any succinct manner.Some nights I feel like I'm gonna just run out into the middle of our street yelling at the top of my lungs then falling face down. A neighbor will recognize what happened n dial 911.
Then so be it.
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Didn't know where to post this. What this fella (Original Post)
sprinkleeninow
2 hrs ago
OP
Please hang in there, my friend! You're surrounded by good company, especially tonight!
Rhiannon12866
2 hrs ago
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I do realize and am grateful. A being receives edification from places and people not expected.
sprinkleeninow
1 hr ago
#2
I myself got overwhelmed in the grocery store's condiment aisle while shopping last evening.
sprinkleeninow
1 hr ago
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Rhiannon12866
(253,305 posts)1. Please hang in there, my friend! You're surrounded by good company, especially tonight!
sprinkleeninow
(22,265 posts)2. I do realize and am grateful. A being receives edification from places and people not expected.
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calimary
(89,519 posts)3. ESPECIALLY tonight.
sprinkleeninow
(22,265 posts)4. Especially...
sprinkleeninow
(22,265 posts)5. I myself got overwhelmed in the grocery store's condiment aisle while shopping last evening.
Skittles
(170,561 posts)6. hypernormalization
Hypernormalisation refers to a situation where a distorted or false version of reality becomes widely accepted as normal, even by those who recognize it as untrue. This concept was first introduced by Alexei Yurchak in the context of late Soviet society, where people acknowledged the system's failures but felt unable to envision
glad there's a word for it because I am certainly seeing / feeling it - people not being paid a decent wage so tipping is becoming a means to make up for that.........the subscriptions for everything, the prices constantly going up while paychecks never keep up, the pay a bit now and a lot more later for overpriced merch, pricing people out of health insurance, home ownership, vacations, a decent retirement, it's just all so ridiculous, something has got to give
glad there's a word for it because I am certainly seeing / feeling it - people not being paid a decent wage so tipping is becoming a means to make up for that.........the subscriptions for everything, the prices constantly going up while paychecks never keep up, the pay a bit now and a lot more later for overpriced merch, pricing people out of health insurance, home ownership, vacations, a decent retirement, it's just all so ridiculous, something has got to give