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Showerthoughts

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Even if you don't do anything special, you could be the catalyst for someone else to do something special. (yiffit.net)
submitted 1 year ago by Kolanaki@yiffit.net to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Just wondering about how my life could have touched someone else's and I realized this. Maybe you're just joking around online and mention something that triggers an idea in someone else that leads to revolutionary new things that impact humans everywhere. Even if you're forgotten, or uncredited, you had a meaningful contribution.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, very true. I suppose I just never really went deeper than just the obvious ways you touch the lives of those around you, like family missing you if you were absent.