Every day is a school day.. ?

sporina

So today I learnt (in a "🤢" kinda way) that I need to clean my earbuds.. kinda shocked by the fact that this had never occurred to me before 😱 oh well - as they say, every day is a school day..

So.. what have you learnt today? (apart from the fact that I have been going around with uncleaned earbuds 😝)

I learned that family is everything. A hug from a sibling, not seen in years, was just perfect. Covid kept us apart. Love brought us together again.

sporina

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117901690#Comment_117901690

Yes, the older I get, the more i appreciate my family.. (especially during the last 18 mths {though I am aware that not everyone has the same fortune to say such})

jjoncik

need to clean earbuds every day 😔.

Cookie_Monster

clean earbuds? surely earbuds are for cleaning ears once then bin? why on earth would you clean them?

miamee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117957864#Comment_117957864

You're thinking of cotton buds.

Wheety

The thought of rinsing your cotton buds and reusing them 😂

DavyD_83

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058209181/every-day-is-a-school-day

How do you clean your earbuds?

I've noticed volume and sound quality decreasing over time and think this is prob the issue. Not sure what to clean them with though...

Oh, and for reusable ear cleaning buds, which you'd Def want to clean between use:

Reusable Cotton Buds with Magnetic Bamboo Case https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08ZRZR6DY/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_H8F4KTTAGN71PPGY0680?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Del2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117957889#Comment_117957889

And they should be nowhere near your ears.

Gregor Samsa

I realised I was guilty of underappreciating the one thing that's with me though thick an thin after reading this thread, so took some time out and gave my earbuds a hug. Definitely need to clean my family, though. Maybe some day.

When you train your mind to stop giving a feck about what other people think only then will you be happy.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117958161#Comment_117958161

...Unless they're bigger than your elbow.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117901690#Comment_117901690

It really isn't true for everyone. Some of us had to learn that even though they are family they may be harming us and need to be kept at arms lengh. Good for you that you have a family like that but other people need to be reassured that it is OK to cut toxic people out too regardless of them being family.

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117958252#Comment_117958252

I would nuance it

Take on board some genuine input from others, disregard some more

Yeah there is a useful difference between being interested in what people think and learning from what people think - and actually emotionally caring what they think.

Derren Brown recently said something like "People would stop worrying about what people think about them - if they realized how seldom they actually do!".

For example I recently made a comment on another thread about how Brazilian Jujitsu can simultaneously teach you pride and humility. And a user tried to troll me with a cowardly hit and run comment along the lines of "Yeah the humility part is failing there bud". I simply asked him to tell me more - and he did not work up the courage or material to answer unfortunately. Perhaps he is working on it.

But I was genuinely interested in that moment to know what he was thinking. Did he see something I was missing? I wanted to know about his thought process to see if I could learn anything from it.

Did I actively emotionally care whether he thought I was a humble person or not? Not a bit. The troll attempt simply failed in that regard as it always will. But there are people who genuinely care what others think. Even if that other is a faceless no name nobody troll just looking for an emotive reaction they can intellectually masturbate themselves over. They will still rise to it - because their pride has been undermined by the thought process of another.