A Difficult Conversation While Scrolling TikTok- 2nd January 2026

~ shaun tenzenmen

What do you wanna do?

….I dunno. What do you wanna do?

You wanna eat?

….I dunno. You wanna eat?

What do you wanna eat?

….I dunno. What do you wanna eat?

….

You wanna wait?

Yeah. No. I dunno. You wanna wait?

….

Wanna play Call of Duty?

….I dunno. You wanna?

….

Wanna…

You wanna?

….

….

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Sometimes, it’s easy to be nostalgic for conversations like this. Everything is possible, yet nothing is doable!
Shared with W3 #192

Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Education Is Freedom

Learning how to live,
the lovers of wisdom know
only the educated are free
to watch their freedom grow.

19 thoughts on “A Difficult Conversation While Scrolling TikTok- 2nd January 2026”

    1. My eyesight and dexterity isn’t good for these new games and I just can’t find enough time to waste on them these days too. I miss having the freedom to while away hours on them though. I will probably give GTA6 a whirl when it comes out.

      Thanks Lesley 🙏

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    1. Even though I can’t understand my teen students when they are interacting in their first language, I can hear this conversation playing out again and again. I think things started to become overwhelming when we were teens and have only gotten worse since. I wonder if there any boomers or earlier that recognise this type of talk when they were teens?

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