this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
49 points (96.2% liked)

Casual Conversation

3379 readers
757 users here now

Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.

RULES

  1. Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling.
  2. Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible.
  3. Avoid controversial topics (e.g. politics or societal debates).
  4. Stay calm: Don’t post angry or to vent or complain. We are a place where everyone can forget about their everyday or not so everyday worries for a moment. Venting, complaining, or posting from a place of anger or resentment doesn't fit the atmosphere we try to foster at all. Feel free to post those on !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
  5. Keep it clean and SFW
  6. No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc.

Casual conversation communities:

Related discussion-focused communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
orangeNgreen@lemmy.world
neidu2@feddit.nl
BoozeOrWater@lemm.ee
49
Does anyone else find waiting physically exhausting? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 3 weeks ago by reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
34 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I find waiting for things physically exhausting. Waiting in lines, waiting sitting in a room, waiting on friends to decide what they want to eat, walking really slowly with an elderly relative: I find it all physically exhausting even though very little physical energy is required.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, but it's likely due to how we use our bodies in a manner that we don't really like, partially because we're on the alert for the waiting to end. Doing something you've chosen to do feels better.

Also, the environment plays a role. It feels more shit to pay a lot of attention to a shitty environment. Same thing as how walkable neighborhoods are usually interesting, while us-style car-brained areas feel like shit to walk or even just exist in, because you're not actually meant to stay there long enough to notice anything.