Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?

• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Obviously I do, I don’t get why you spun what I said into hyperbole. But what do you do after you’ve experienced the surroundings, and now have to experience them again, and again, and again?

  Honestly y’all must be kinda boring people if you’re happy just staring off into nothingness doing nothing at all, just left foot right foot like some kinda robot to and fro on the daily.

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  • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like day dreaming, talking to people I bump into while I’m about, hearing the buzz of people in a pub garden, the music playing in people’s cars as they drive past. I like these things, it makes me feel connected to the place I live. It’s also good to just let your mind wander without constant stimulation.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I absolutely daydream and let my mind wander. That is precisely why I listen to music. Obviously the brain requires stimulation, or we wouldn’t have a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry and the arts nor science nor literature nor much of anything really.

      I personally would derive no stimulation from hearing what racist crap some grampa is shouting down at the pub, nor talking to some random about nothing with whom I have nothing in common.

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  • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t listen to them. I have severe adhd. Like they have me in training videos back when I was a kid.

    I spend all day everyday with an earbud in my ear. I don’t really like music so it’s podcasts all day everyday.

    You can absolutely experience life fully like this. I walk more than anyone I know. I can point out stars in the sky and how the andromeda galaxy would look in the sky. I watch birds, I walk on the beach every night.

    And other times I just let my mind wonder wherever it goes. I think about my day, the people I care about, how I can do more and better.

    I do it all with an earbud in my ear. Only one, but always one.

    Don’t let people tell you how to live.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah I have ADHD too, professionally diagnosed and medicated, but even all the NTs I know don’t just drool off into nothingness, this thread is eye-opening honestly.

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      • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        It’s not drooling off no more than you’re spacing out in music. It’s just life.

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