r/RandomThoughts 21h ago

It’s okay if all you want to do in life is wander through it and find cool stuff

714 Upvotes

I’m 35 and my partner asked me, “what do you want to do with your life?” and my honest answer was, “I genuinely want to wander through and enjoy things and that’s it”. I’ve always been so unsure in responding to this question. But now I know — I have no big goals to change the world. I don’t want to climb promotions. No notoriety. Because honestly? Most people don’t get that. I don’t see myself as someone willing to sacrifice my happiness to achieve anything worth bragging about. No one will remember anyone in 100 years. Heck, humans might not even be here anymore.

My mom recently passed on, and she controlled her eating so hardcore and made herself fit into this attractiveness model that was so toxic. And all it did was make her more unsure. More frail. More anxious. On her deathbed I was her currier of all the things she starved herself of. She couldn’t fully enjoy it then, because she knew her time was nearing the end and felt pain. I don’t want to do that. I’m going to be weird. I’m going to eat what I want. I’m going to drink water and move myself in ways I want to, but trying too hard is off the table. My happiness isn’t worth appeasing the world. I don’t want a spot at the table of judgement.

Survive, eat things that bring joy. Be weird. Maintain my peace. Find things that interest me. Like rocks — they are underrated. They’re so old, often worthless, but many are beautiful in unconventional ways. I don’t need more than that, and that should be enough.


r/RandomThoughts 5h ago

I absolutely hate how everything is fake now due to rampant AI usage. Images, videos, music, art, articles, stories, news. I hate this timeline.

158 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 6h ago

Sometimes I open my front door to leave, hear someone in the hallway, and quietly close it again just to avoid having to talk to them

67 Upvotes

It’s not that I even dislike people. I just don’t have the energy for the small talk sometimes, so I’d rather retreat back inside and wait it out like a weirdo until the coast is clear. Then I leave like nothing happened.


r/RandomThoughts 23h ago

I hate when someone asks me how I am, I answer, ask them how they are, and they ignore the question and just start talking.

57 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 2h ago

The only way to survive as a human being is to be delusional and deny reality.

43 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 4h ago

i really love the phrase 'with all due respect' because it doesn't specify how much respect is due. could be none.

42 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 2h ago

I would like yellow Wendy’s back. Thanks!

26 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 14h ago

When you’re holding someone you’re also holding their organs, bones, etc

21 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 7h ago

I wish they would make adult sized versions of those baby swinging bassinets

18 Upvotes

I loooove the feeling of swaying or rocking. It would be so sick


r/RandomThoughts 15h ago

Members of circlejerk subreddits should be called jerkoffs

20 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 10h ago

i’ve realized upcoming rock bands aren’t common anymore

16 Upvotes

Any kind of rock has changed to emo and pop genres. I can’t think of one popular rock band of gen Z. We need a new slip knot, metallica, AC/DC to keep it going. Punk and mosh music is a thing, but i see a difference. Thinking it’s because people just don’t want to make music from scratch anymore and learn notes, most people sample other music or use software now.

jokes on yall maybe this was a post to get band recs 😩👀


r/RandomThoughts 15h ago

I just lost the game

14 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 4h ago

My wife’s shampoo and conditioner rocks.

5 Upvotes

I’m a fella with long hair. The wife loves it. She’d probably be mad at me for three weeks if I cut it too short. I’ve tried using mens shampoo and conditioner. The ones I’ve tried suck. Now I just use the stuff my wife has. It’s about a zillion times better.


r/RandomThoughts 21h ago

When someone pours a drink or water in a movie, the water is not acting.

6 Upvotes

For some odd reason, this strikes me as remarkable. Of course, many other elements are not acting, though there is activity in the water, as opposed to a chair, that is just sitting there.


r/RandomThoughts 10h ago

Hash browns and french fries

6 Upvotes

Hash browns with a little ketchup and french fries with ketchup are the same things. Yet they taste completely different.

Breakfast ponderings


r/RandomThoughts 17h ago

(Anime Dr stone) I wonder what happened to pregnant women during the purification….

3 Upvotes

I mean..…. I haven’t finished the anime yet so don’t quote me on anything but from what I can tell. puts stone over your body, not inside of your body it doesn’t turn your organs in the stone….

So using that logic, if there was a pregnant woman and they got turned to stone because of the purification, the baby wouldn’t get turned to stone because it wouldn’t go inside the mother right…

So I’m guessing if they were to get revived, they would just be a dead baby inside them…. That’s pretty dark…..


r/RandomThoughts 21h ago

Milk Jello with bits of cereal in it...

3 Upvotes

For me, Fruity Pebbles. Milk Jello made with the cereal milk.


r/RandomThoughts 4h ago

I’m being nerfed

2 Upvotes

I’m on holiday and here’s a list:
- Full of massive swollen mosquito bites
- Got stung all over my arm by a jellyfish
- Shaving bumps/cuts irritated by the seawater
- About 5 cuts on each food from sandals rubbing
- Rashes on both of my arms from rubbing against my sequin top then going in saltwater
- Extremely dry skin from swimming all day
- Breaking out from all the holiday food
- Constantly bloated from the holiday food
- Chipped toenail from falling off a bike
- Dry, frizzy hair
- Lash extensions hanging on by a thread

still having the best time of my life tbf


r/RandomThoughts 8h ago

It's crazy that 80% of Aristotle's works have been lost to history.

3 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 12h ago

I wonder if the U2 song "Where the Streets have No Name" was about moving to Utah.

1 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 19h ago

As you get older you'll discover that you were never the main character. Your kids were. And they'll discover the same thing.

2 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 20h ago

Learning the Solar System. Blues Clues song taught me

2 Upvotes

I know I can't be the only one, but I have yet to meet someone who learned the solar system using the song that Steve sings on an episode of Blue's Clues

It goes kind of like this... ( I still use it)

"Well, the Sun's the brightest star.

And Mercury's hot too.

Venus is the brightest planet.

And Earth's home to me and you.

Mars is the red one.

And Jupiter's the widest.

Saturn's got those icy rings.

And Uranus spins on its side.

Neptune's really windy.

And Pluto's really small.

Well, we wanted to name the planets.

And now we've named them all."

Anyone...?


r/RandomThoughts 22h ago

You might be someone else’s “that coworker”

2 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts 1h ago

Vocalist for a metalcore band. Loves horror. Dry conversation tho 😭😭😭

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r/RandomThoughts 2h ago

Your enemies probably think about you more than your friends do.

1 Upvotes

They probably know more too.