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[–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

As someone who highly values spending time just thinking, it does take a level of privilege to do so. If your needs aren't met, or your life isn't safe/secure, letting the mind wander is giving it the ability to latch onto these distressing topics and create loops of anxiety and stress.

As much as I value spending my time thinking, I also value ways of shutting my brain off so that I don't have another panic attack about how I can't afford groceries yet or not knowing if my housing situation is secure. I can't feel like my life is collapsing if I distract myself.

And more people than not are struggling to make ends meet, so I imagine more people than not have stresses they need to put out of mind, just to retain their sanity.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    And this is why the day-drinking, fake-nail wearing, egoista "Real Housewives of Enid, OK" should hush themselves when considering commentary on poor people with vices.

    Sorry Enid, I've never been, I'm sure it's a lovely town.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Oh, I can distract myself by thinking? It's weird, but thinking through distressing horror actually makes it less stressful than avoiding it. "This then this then this then this and then I can get to sleep with a 'full' seven hours tonight!"

    You're probably right, though, that most people absolutely don't want to think about The Terror. Oh! Another thing, I work on a production line and I spend basically all day at work thinking about ways to improve my work station or overall productivity/quality - but other people try as hard as they can to not to think about work and to distract themselves with literally anything else. I can't help it!

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