• Art3mis@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      If the only free time you get between sleep, food, chores and work is these little moments of peace, you learn to cherish them.

      Between that and the car dependence of the US, it wouldnt surprise me if it was semi specific. When most people would zone out on a train or whatever for their commute, americans spend theirs locked in on the drive.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 hours ago

    I often wondered about this behavior. Every so often I would see someone go to their car in a parking lot, sit down in the driver’s seat and just… go nowhere. Engine is running, music is on, driver has a 1000-yard stare. It’s so far removed from my own experience - I never do this - that for the longest time, I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Somehow, the phrase ‘after a long day’ made it click. So thanks, OP.

    Apartment living also showed me that some people just hang out alone in the car instead of in the apartment. That I can understand as some units can be downright claustrophobic if you have a big family. Want privacy? Get a car payment I guess. :(

  • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
    3·
    12 hours ago

    I’ve found myself sitting alone in my car in an abandoned parking lot just listening to some music and wondering what I’m doing with my life. The strange thing is that, by all objective measures, I have a really good life. I have an SO that I love more than anything in the world, and which is fantastic to me, I have parents and siblings that I have great relationships to, I have a job that I really enjoy, and I have good friends. Despite all that, I sometimes get this need to just “disappear” for a little while and isolate myself while listening to sad music. I don’t really enjoy it either, it’s more like some kind of cathartic feeling, like theres some kind of sadness in me that occasionally just wells up and needs to be given some space. It’s quite rare (maybe once a year or something on that order), but it does happen. It’s actually really nice to see that this is something relatable - I’ve never really spoken to anybody about it.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    Can I join you? Would that be okay? I’ll just sit down here in the passenger seat, and relax a bit. Whatcha watchin’ there?

    • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
      11·
      22 hours ago

      Wouldn’t we be better off alone? Nobody at home to give us shit. Just do whatever you feel like.

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    2·
    21 hours ago

    It only takes me a few minutes to drive home from my office. Its good to just take a breath

    • nevetsg@aussie.zone
      2·
      12 hours ago

      I could drive <5min to work or walk <20min. I chose walking for equal parts exercise and time alone in my thoughts.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 day ago

    I’ll come in after this song, I just got to the chorus

    🎶 Ooooooh now I hope that you’re happy

    🎶 I hear you somewhere in the sa-a-and

    🎶 And how I wish I was an ocean, maybe theeeeen (maybe theeeeeeeen)

    🎶 I’d get to see you again