This was a lot of fun! I have only been a daily flosser for two years, so I can’t exactly feel smug, but what worked for me is a small change in my morning routine. I wash my glasses every morning, so I started flossing beforehand and combined glasses-washing with handwashing. Now it feels completely gross not to floss.
Ah, you seem to be in the first camp! You also seem to have ignored my instructions for your type 🤔
I kid. Thank you!
What is this "washing glasses" business you speak of? I've only recently started wearing glasses again... am I supposed to be _washing_ these things? DAILY? Do Zeiss wipes count?
Neither righteously indignant nor ashamed and defensive, I am ecstatic and in love. Josh, I never imagined that my idea about flossing would reach a wider audience. What you wrote here is the absolute embodiment of everything I believe and wanted to convey, but what is truly amazing is that we hardly talked about it. It was a brief comment in a bigger conversation of positive change. Even though you could have just ignored it, you chose to think about it yourself, and you came to understand the same philosophy that I did. You took the idea farther than I would have ever thought, without anyone telling you to, and I'm incredibly proud and happy to have been here to have a lasting and positive impact on your life. Thank you, thank you, I love you, thank you.
To anyone else reading this, I want to say that flossing can be just the beginning. I think that it is the bedrock of self-care and positive change. I never used to exercise or take care of myself. It's easy not to, because doing those things is really hard. Flossing, for me, was kind of like a meditation. It taught me how to do things that I don't want to do when I know that they will make me feel better and make me healthier. It was a turning point, where instead of just putting up with life and going through the motions, I decided that I was going to live healthily and happily, even though I didn't know it at the time.
If you're just getting started, I think you should have fun with it. When I envisioned myself as being someone who flosses every day, I didn't imagine some mundane and humble flosser. I imagined an arrogant prick saying something like, "What, you don't floss every day? Hahaha. Ooookay." I wanted to be in that position because I thought it was funny, and it sounded like something I would say as a joke. Anyways, thanks again Josh. This is really amazing.
Few things will freshen your breath faster and better than daily flossing.
Just keep this in mind--your chances of halitosing your colleagues and friends increase greatly if you don't floss.
Don't believe me? Grab some unflavored floss. Brush your teeth as usual. Floss. Then smell the floss. That's what others are smelling coming out of your mouth.
I love this. It’s like virtue ethics for chads.
Paired with a little bit of "you're only not a Chad because you haven't decided to be" hopefully!
This was a lot of fun! I have only been a daily flosser for two years, so I can’t exactly feel smug, but what worked for me is a small change in my morning routine. I wash my glasses every morning, so I started flossing beforehand and combined glasses-washing with handwashing. Now it feels completely gross not to floss.
Ah, you seem to be in the first camp! You also seem to have ignored my instructions for your type 🤔
I kid. Thank you!
What is this "washing glasses" business you speak of? I've only recently started wearing glasses again... am I supposed to be _washing_ these things? DAILY? Do Zeiss wipes count?
They count!
Neither righteously indignant nor ashamed and defensive, I am ecstatic and in love. Josh, I never imagined that my idea about flossing would reach a wider audience. What you wrote here is the absolute embodiment of everything I believe and wanted to convey, but what is truly amazing is that we hardly talked about it. It was a brief comment in a bigger conversation of positive change. Even though you could have just ignored it, you chose to think about it yourself, and you came to understand the same philosophy that I did. You took the idea farther than I would have ever thought, without anyone telling you to, and I'm incredibly proud and happy to have been here to have a lasting and positive impact on your life. Thank you, thank you, I love you, thank you.
To anyone else reading this, I want to say that flossing can be just the beginning. I think that it is the bedrock of self-care and positive change. I never used to exercise or take care of myself. It's easy not to, because doing those things is really hard. Flossing, for me, was kind of like a meditation. It taught me how to do things that I don't want to do when I know that they will make me feel better and make me healthier. It was a turning point, where instead of just putting up with life and going through the motions, I decided that I was going to live healthily and happily, even though I didn't know it at the time.
If you're just getting started, I think you should have fun with it. When I envisioned myself as being someone who flosses every day, I didn't imagine some mundane and humble flosser. I imagined an arrogant prick saying something like, "What, you don't floss every day? Hahaha. Ooookay." I wanted to be in that position because I thought it was funny, and it sounded like something I would say as a joke. Anyways, thanks again Josh. This is really amazing.
Few things will freshen your breath faster and better than daily flossing.
Just keep this in mind--your chances of halitosing your colleagues and friends increase greatly if you don't floss.
Don't believe me? Grab some unflavored floss. Brush your teeth as usual. Floss. Then smell the floss. That's what others are smelling coming out of your mouth.