• doingthestuff
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    1 hour ago

    Now is the only moment that matters. Don’t worry about tomorrow or relive yesterday.

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    20 hours ago

    One morning, a few weeks back, I made eye contact with someone who was obviously having a rough morning. I knew I shouldn’t engage but I also didn’t want to ignore them, so I gave a quick good morning. They promptly responded, “fuck your morning.”

    I think of that interaction every day.

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    19 hours ago

    The woke left is trying to kill morning. Now you have to say “happy arbitrary ante meridiem temporal designation.”

    Morning America Good Again!

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    20 hours ago

    Reminds me of my Polish colleague who once arrived at the office and said: "I would say good morning. But it’s not a good morning. "

    The previous night our manager had taken the team out for dinner and drinks, paid for by the company. It wasn’t a good morning for any of us 😁

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      Reminds me of my Lithuanian colleague, who would walk into the office and not say anything. If you greeted her, she’d cast you a wary look like what’s so special about this morning to make it “good” mothafucka

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    I like to stick with a simple “hello” so I don’t have to keep track of time (e.g. during meetings across timezones or even when I’m so scatterbrained that day that I lose track of local time) and it’s also less presumptuous.

    • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      The worst is being corrected.

      “Good morning, how are you?”

      looks at watch “it’s 12:01pm so it’s good afternoon”

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      20 hours ago

      People have accepted that ‘morning’ is my standard greeting regardless of the time of day. It’s even become a thing everyone says within my close friend group.

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        If its a group of people I just mutter bunch of things: “hi” “morning” “happy birthday” “merry christmas” (doesn’t matter what day or time)

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          As a teenager I’d sometimes just randomly sprinkle in complete nonsense as a greeting, like ‘wtf is oatmeal’, or ‘I speak for the trees’, and hardly anyone noticed

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            Especially if there’s a lineup of people waiting to shake hands. “Hello. How are you. Happy Easter. Gondor calls for aid.”

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      21 hours ago

      Reminds me of the quote from The Hobbit:

      “What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”