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sprinkleeninow

(22,265 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 02:07 AM 2 hrs ago

Didn'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 #1
I do realize and am grateful. A being receives edification from places and people not expected. sprinkleeninow 1 hr ago #2
ESPECIALLY tonight. calimary 1 hr ago #3
Especially... sprinkleeninow 1 hr ago #4
I myself got overwhelmed in the grocery store's condiment aisle while shopping last evening. sprinkleeninow 1 hr ago #5
hypernormalization Skittles 1 hr ago #6

sprinkleeninow

(22,265 posts)
2. I do realize and am grateful. A being receives edification from places and people not expected.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 02:21 AM
1 hr ago

🫂💟

Skittles

(170,561 posts)
6. hypernormalization
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 03:01 AM
1 hr ago
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
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