Basically, how many spoons someone has left, or how much bad and/or taxing stuff they’re capable of bearing today.
This would serve two purposes. One. It’d allow me to communicate more carefully or gently with those who require it, two, it’d give me real time feedback on shit I might’ve doing that’s causing a disproportionate amount of harm to someone else.
Ex: I can be in a wonderful mood and capable of taking all kinds of bad news, but asking me to go out of my way to do an act of service for someone else as a show of affection while I’m in the middle of some self-care after I’ve spent all day working in a service industry will tank my remaining fucks immediately. I’m absolutely certain that others around me have similar reactions to things that I do, and if I could see what they were, I could stop doing them inadvertently.
I did think the question implied this as a superpower you only have and it’s for one metric only.
However, I am curious as to what governs the metric of how many “spoons” someone has left. It’s not like when I’m getting down to the wire I’m thinking “well I’ve got about 2 fucks left in me to give”.
I realized later I misunderstood the scope of the prompt, yeah.
As far as spoon count, like so many of the other responses in this thread it would require quantization of something not so easily expressed as a simple value, and things to have to give spoons about arent really equal in value/cost. That said, I think I could generally characterize my “spoon costs” as small, medium, and large, and when I’m down to maybe 2 medium spoons I can feel that amount.
Fucks left to give.
Basically, how many spoons someone has left, or how much bad and/or taxing stuff they’re capable of bearing today.
This would serve two purposes. One. It’d allow me to communicate more carefully or gently with those who require it, two, it’d give me real time feedback on shit I might’ve doing that’s causing a disproportionate amount of harm to someone else.
Ex: I can be in a wonderful mood and capable of taking all kinds of bad news, but asking me to go out of my way to do an act of service for someone else as a show of affection while I’m in the middle of some self-care after I’ve spent all day working in a service industry will tank my remaining fucks immediately. I’m absolutely certain that others around me have similar reactions to things that I do, and if I could see what they were, I could stop doing them inadvertently.
Counter: now everyone else knows exactly how many fucks/spoons you have left, and many will feel entitled to them because it’s more than zero.
I did think the question implied this as a superpower you only have and it’s for one metric only. However, I am curious as to what governs the metric of how many “spoons” someone has left. It’s not like when I’m getting down to the wire I’m thinking “well I’ve got about 2 fucks left in me to give”.
I realized later I misunderstood the scope of the prompt, yeah.
As far as spoon count, like so many of the other responses in this thread it would require quantization of something not so easily expressed as a simple value, and things to have to give spoons about arent really equal in value/cost. That said, I think I could generally characterize my “spoon costs” as small, medium, and large, and when I’m down to maybe 2 medium spoons I can feel that amount.