I think Giles from Buffy thinks about getting a cat sometimes and always decides that having an animal in his house would be more inconvenient and unsavory than it's worth. But he still imagines it and is like well maybe

started making a bike riding playlist and then realized probably 80% of the songs I like already lend themselves to riding my bike. is this a win or a fail. Well maybe that's a bad framework for this. Ok but it does seem like a win long term but a slight waste of time short term. Ok whatever

I asked my dentist how long my new filling on my front tooth would last and he was like "It depends. If you're a person who's eating sweet corn every day, then not very long at all, but if you're a 98 year old woman who only eats soup, then a very long time." Genuinely loving that dichotomy