I can be a backpack while you run
I feel you, green guy.
Submitted 6 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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wjrii@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sick of your shit have I become.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Embrace death, I will.
lugal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As a kid, I had a book about a kid always asking “why?” and at some point, aliens came to conquer the earth. While everybody was freaked out, the kid just continued asking “why?”. “To exploit earth’s resources” “to conquer other words” “to exploit their resources too” “to conquer other galaxies” “to further our rule” “to conquer… well I see now that it’s all meaningless and we go home now.”
This is a story every child should read and don’t ask me why, it just is.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
why?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Allow me to explain it to you in Billy Joel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwSWEJmQgk
lugal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Because people who always ask “why” don’t achieve anything. Did you get nothing out of the story above?
ekZepp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Classic parenting trick.
"What? I have to raise a couple of problematic force-sensitive twins as a single mother under a tyrannical dictatorship? Sorry but no. Too sad to live"🤷♀️
Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I can’t imagine how shit life would be having been part of an absolutely useless Jedi Republic which did nothing to stop fascism, and then having to live in a swamp to raise a hero who will actually end up not really being very good at it, long-term.
Poor Yoda had a shit life, put-upon and thankless.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The same thing, from the Silmarillion:
The love of Finwë and Míriel was great and glad, for it began in the Blessed Realm in the Days of Bliss. But in the bearing of her son Míriel was consumed in spirit and body; and after his birth she yearned for release from the labour of living. And when she had named him, she said to
Finwë: ‘Never again shall I bear child; for strength that would have nourished the life of many has gone forth into Fëanor.’
[They try to heal her and even the gods fail at it]
‘It is indeed unhappy,’ said Míriel, ‘and I would weep, if I were not so weary. But hold me blameless in this, and in all that may come after.’
She went then to the gardens of Lórien and lay down to sleep; but though she seemed to sleep, her
spirit indeed departed from her body, and passed in silence to the halls of Mandos.
Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
A puppet I am, Luke. When goes to pee operator does, die I will.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Damn this absolutely hits home. He looks so peaceful. I’m jealous.
MoonManKipper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why?
pyre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
that’s funny, but trying to answer a kid’s questions is both humbling and educational. they ask about things you take for granted, and even as an inquisitive person you might accept some things “just are” without thinking about them until a kid asks you what that’s all about.
sometimes you know the answer and it’s satisfying.
sometimes you don’t and thanks to technology now you can research it together in a way maybe you couldn’t when you were a kid and once wondered about it but never learned and maybe you forgot to ask again later.
sometimes you think you know but once you try to explain it you realize that there’s lots of holes in your understanding.
sometimes they just tell you something you didn’t know because they watch educational kids shows and no one told you that sloths are pretty impressive swimmers.
there’s a monologue by a character called Eve in the Love Death and Robots episode Pop Squad that lives rent free in my head. if you’re not gonna watch it:
!Ive been alive for 218 years. I’ve seen… too much. But she makes everything new. I love seeing things through her little eyes. They’re so bright. They’re so full of life. Not Dead. Like Yours.!<
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, but why?
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
And sometimes kids aren’t interested in the answers, they just want to annoy you.
pyre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m not that cynical about little kids. Maybe they sometimes do things that annoy you because they find it funny, not because it’s specifically annoying. Surely not annoying to them anyway. idk I find it weird to ascribe malice to a 3-5 year old. in any case, I’m a big guy, I can handle a little kid even if they want to annoy me.
Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br 6 months ago
I miss answering my kid’s questions. Teenagers know everything.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My 14-year-old still asks me lots of questions. Unlike the joke in the meme, I’m actually fine answering them.
mostdubious@lemmy.world 6 months ago
quit having kids. problem solved.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s a little late for that.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 months ago
It’s never too late to go out for smokes.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
i thought about having kids, but decided i’m too busy doing whatever i feel like with all my spare time
synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Insane flex
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t really think it is. I have a kid, but we felt that way for much of our 20s and into our early 30s.
People shouldn’t have a child until/unless they really want a one. If you never want a child, you should never have one. One of many reasons abortion should always be legal.
Children should never be abused or neglected.
Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I didn’t think about having kids, I’m asexual and don’t like people.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Kids are absolutely post main story content. You better have your life in order and your aspirations met because you’re about to do some serious compromising when you throw a kid in the mix. I think one of the best decisions of my life was to fulfill my needs before having children.
Dave@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
What if you don’t have any aspirations?
TheBat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Kids? In this climate? No thanks!
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hey, never say never! The climate is changing after all…
MrLLM@ani.social 6 months ago
Do you guys have spare time and money :( ?