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why does a genuine compliment or a random act of kindness hit so fucking hard. like I have a real cartoony cupid with an arrow type moment to every show of gentle and loving human interaction that I see it.
Feb 21, 2025
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I love to be surprised by a stranger offering kindness out of the blue.
Just now I was jogging to the train, as I do because I always leave things last minute - so I was on time to make it. But a guy in a car just stopped by me and asked if I was going to miss my train and offered a quick lift to the station
I declined because I was still on time (nothing against him) but I love how that random guy just decided to stop for a moment to offer kindness, such a nice little interaction to enter the weekend with :)
there’s still lots of love in the world, despite the richest trying to force barriers between strangers
Also reminds me of the times working in the supermarket where I saw strangers offer to buy things for others if the other person was just short, people they might never see again but decided to give money to.
Jan 24, 2025
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I need to take my own advice… I will often meet people and the lovely things about them stick out to me — be it their laugh, the way they wear their hair, maybe a particular piece of clothing — and I really want to compliment them but the words are like peanut butter in my mouth and I can’t spit it out! I mean every now and again I remember a compliment I’ve gotten and am all 🤭 over it. I need to put that good energy back into the world!!!
Jan 28, 2024
There’s a park we frequent that has a 1.7 mile loop that’s sandwiched between a lake and a zoo. One of the features of the walking path is that at a certain point it passes by this mini train track that belongs to the zoo so you families and kids on field trips passing by all throughout the day. We’ve been coming to this park for a few years and it hit me today that we’ve been partaking in an almost scared tradition every time we see the train: waving.
Without any hesitation, as the train passes, the kids on the train are ALWAYS waving at whoever is passing by. Runners, walkers, people with strollers, big groups, solo people — all being waved at by these children on a train. And you know what those people do? They wave back. Every single time. Doesn’t matter what they’re doing, they wave in response to the waves they’ve been given. And the kids smile. And the people smile. And kindness is spread through this simple act of waving your hand through the air.
I waved the kids today. My daughter waved too, although I think she might have been swatting at a fly. But it was nice in that moment to see that it’s those small unspoken moments of kindness that connect us as humans. Objectively, the waving didn’t move the ‘good in the world’ needle forward at all. But subjectively I know it made some 5-year-olds day to have me wave back at them.
Apr 30, 2024
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there’s a short story written by Ray Bradbury called The Illustrated Man that centers around a man whose markings change to tell different, tragic stories. this isn’t exactly the point of that story, but i love the idea of having my chosen tattoos be on me and watch me grow/how they add to my story. maybe my snat (snail/cat) is sentient and loves me, too.
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Creating things hasn’t always been my strong suite because I feel like everything needs to be perfect all the time. Big fan of junk journal for that reason- collaging with little trinkets and junk I collect is the most low stakes rewarding thing I’ve done in a while
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