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Unpopular opinion: a stranger's 2 minute chat at a Denver bus stop beat my $200 therapy app
Last Tuesday I was waiting for the 15 bus in Denver and this older guy noticed my shaking hands and just started talking to me about his garden, no big speech, just tomatoes. I almost pulled out my phone but instead I asked him what kind, and we talked for 2 minutes until his bus came, and honestly my chest felt looser than after a month of the app. So is it just me, or does a random 2 minute talk with a stranger do more than any self help thing you pay for?
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oscarhart1mo ago
The tomatoes detail is what got me. Not the therapy app part, but the fact that he was talking about something real that he could touch and grow. Here's the thing nobody talks about: a stranger at a bus stop doesn't know your history, so they can't treat you like a patient. That guy just saw a person with shaky hands and decided to talk about tomatoes. No intake form, no "how does that make you feel," no subscription renewal. You got to be a normal human for 2 minutes instead of a problem to be solved. Apps can't do that because they're built to make you focus on yourself, and sometimes the fix is doing the exact opposite.
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