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Artist: Bush Song: Straight, No Chaser [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" Prompt: Write about an invention or technology that you wish existed that would make your life better. Naturally, my first thought is for things that are inconvenient around the house... A washer-dryer combo that separates and folds the clothes, self-cleaning floors, a refrigerator that automatically exposes of expired stuff. Or maybe teleportation for ultimate commuting convenience. Electronics with endless battery life... But I'm trying to think outside the box a little on some stuff that might be semi-feasible and would be totally awesome. Subscription-based therapy. Hear me out. I have a subscription-based primary care physician. Flat monthly fee and you get unlimited phone messages and appointments with your doctor. It's called concierge medicine. I've seen a few "concierge therapists" but they're extremely sketchy and if you look into them, they often don't have any actual credentials. I do think there's an idea there somewhere though, especially as someone nears the end of needing regular therapy appointments. You can set them up with a flat monthly fee for an allotted X amount of therapy hours a month and then if they need all the hours because they're having a bad month, they can use them. If they're having a good month, they might use very few hours or none at all. It's all a trade-off. An AI personal secretary service. I hate making phone calls to set up appointments or calling places to get information on their holiday hours or whatever it might be. I wish there was essentially an automated service where I could input what I want, like, "Appointment with Dr. Whoever anytime before 12pm Tuesday-Thursday of next week." Then my little robot secretary could set up the appointment for me by calling the office and then notify me of my appointment time. Yes, I'm that antisocial. Healthy sleep and food substitutes. I feel like I waste way too much time sleeping and eating. Sleeping is fun and all that, but I wish there was a healthy way to substitute it when I need to pull an all-nighter. I'm not talking caffeine pills because those aren't healthy at all. But I do wish there was basically like a self-care pill where I could be like, ugh, don't have time to eat and sleep right now, I'll just take my self-care pill. Bullshit blocker. Sometimes I see a news headline and I'm just like, "Yeah, that's bullshit..." but I don't exactly have any evidence and I also don't want to spend forever researching to prove myself right. I wish there were just like bullshit detecting glasses that we could wear and they'd just put a red line through everything that's totally fabricated or misrepresented. Would be super nice in 2020. Thought translator. You know when you're half asleep and you write a poem in your head? I wish I could just think that into fruition and save it on the cloud or something. It would be so much easier to write if I didn't have to get up and actually write. This would be also cool for when you have an interesting dream that starts slipping away from you the second you wake up. I used to try to keep a dream journal, but by the time I started writing, I'd lost the total essence of the dream. Of course, I don't want to remember 90% of my dreams, but for those special few, it would be cool. Drink life as it comes straight no chaser |