41 Everyday Secrets Everyone Lives But No One Ever Talks About—Until Now
Ever catch yourself chatting away with your cat or muttering to yourself in the car and wonder, “Am I the only weirdo who does this?” Well, brace yourself — you’re not alone! Turns out, nearly everyone has a secret dialogue running in their head (like, 98% of people, according to science). And those silly meowing conversations with your furry friend? A whopping 84% of pet owners are guilty too. We humans have a stash of quirky habits we barely admit to—even to our closest friends—but we’re oddly eager to spill the beans online. So, I dug through Reddit’s best confessions to find the wild, weird, and wonderfully relatable things we all do… but keep hush-hush. Ready for a peek into your own secret society of strange little rituals? Trust me, it’s a lot more comforting—and hilarious—than you think.
Do you have a quirk that makes you think you’re the only one who does it? Like talking to yourself while driving. Turns out, you might not be as special as you think. One study has found that 98% of people have an internal monologue.
And if you think you’re the only one who has meowing conversations with their cat, think again. According to one survey, 84% of pet owners talk to their pets as if they were fellow humans.
We seldom discuss these weird habits with someone else. Yet we’re not afraid to admit to them on the internet. We’ve collected the best and most out-of-pocket answers from two Reddit threads where someone asked people to share the things we all do but don’t talk about. Scroll down and see if you can relate to any of them, Pandas!
I have meowing conversations with my cat when no one is around. Anyone else do this or am I just odd?
Use Q-tips the way the instructions warn you not to.
Not really knowing when or how to interact with someone walking towards you down a long hallway. I never know when its time to make eye contact and I end up staring at people like a freak.
It’s when we repeat entire conversations in our head and sometimes can’t stop thinking about them. Why do we ruminate? These are some of the possible reasons:
- It’s a way to control anxiety;
- It’s how we self-soothe;
- It’s how we prepare for similar conversations in the future.
We pretend we’re looking into the shop but really we’re just checking out our reflection in the shop’s windows.
“Rumination can develop as a result of traumatic experiences or the false belief that repeatedly thinking about this one thing can help solve the problem. There’s an idea that forcing ourselves to think about a situation will lead to a solution,” she says.
- Ground yourself in the present moment;
- Allow yourself to make mistakes and be wrong;
- Focus on something else in the moment: call a friend, listen to some music or a podcast;
- Put your worries in writing;
- Adjust your perspective and ask yourself, “Will it matter an hour? 3 hours? A day from now?”
- Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.
Thinks about being rich and famous, and imagines what your lifestyle would be like and how impressive it will be to everyone you know, and then forcing yourself to accept that that will probably never happen and feeling bummed out about it. For bonus bummer points you can do this while looking at expensive real estate online and mentally planning how you would furnish your awesome mansion.
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