Thought of the Day and Question of the Day for May 29, 2025
Today’s Thought of the Day and Question of the Day go hand-in-hand—asking what happens when we stop caring and what quietly vanishes while we’re looking the other way. This post reflects on how easy it is to check out and how much we might miss when we do—like the quiet death of cursive and the slow fading of basic human decency.
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🧠 Thought of the Day: “Spending your days, day after day, not caring is a tragedy.”
Not caring sounds harmless. Even kind of cool. It’s easy to confuse it with being unbothered or chill. But there’s a dangerous edge to sustained indifference.
I’ve lived through stretches where caring just felt like too much work. Too heavy. Too vulnerable. Too likely to end in disappointment. So I coasted. I disengaged. I said “it is what it is” way too often.
But the truth? It isn’t what it is. It’s what you make it. And when you stop caring—about your work, your relationships, your curiosity, your handwriting (more on that below)—you stop living with any sort of intensity. Life becomes beige.
Caring takes effort. But not caring takes everything.
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❓ Question of the Day: “What has gradually disappeared over the last 10 years without people really noticing?”
Cursive writing and good manners.
Cursive used to be this rite of passage in school. Loops and slants and a sense of style in your script. Now? Kids type before they talk, and “signature” might as well mean scribble. There’s a whole generation that can’t read Grandma’s letters because she wrote in beautiful, flowing cursive.
But even more worrying than the death of script is the slow erosion of manners.
Holding a door. Saying “please” without it sounding like a threat. Listening—actually listening—without checking your phone. These things didn’t disappear all at once. They just got nudged out of the room by urgency and self-interest.
And we didn’t push back. We didn’t notice. We just… stopped caring. Which, if you’ve been paying attention, ties back to the tragedy of the thought of the day.
So here’s to the things that deserve a comeback. Bring back handwritten thank-you notes. Bring back standing when someone older walks in. Bring back “excuse me” when you interrupt, and “I’m sorry” when you mean it.
💬 Let’s Bring Back the Good Stuff
If we want to live fully, we have to care fully. And maybe—just maybe—if we care again, we’ll notice what’s worth saving before it slips away.
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