stevewallen wrote: » I'm a man, and I like Hallmark Christmas movies. Yes, I know the acting isn't all that great. Yes, I know how they're going to end. But, yet, I'm entertained by them.
Minion_training_program wrote: » I confess i am a really shy person in real life, but online i have no problem chatting with people Also i can share more to online persons (who i at least been "friends" with for a few years) rather than to my friends in real life
ReenieHJ wrote: » I've vented in many places, MFP is one, about my elderly neighbor over the years. He and I are such different people in many many ways, our values, everything. The man is 12 days short of his 89th birthday, which he'll never see. It was one of his two goals for the past 6 months. The other goal was giving me money to go to Seattle to visit my dd. I kept telling him 'thank you, that's very kind of you but it's your money, you're going to need it so use it to make life better for yourself'. I've been visiting a couple times a day because his 2 dds are there with him, taking care of him 24/7 now. He's got 'hours to a couple days' according to Hospice. When I went yesterday, his dds gave me a thank you card, with a check. Quite a substantial check. Insisted I accept it because it's what their dad wanted for me. So I told him thank you and I will be going to visit my dd this next year and it'll pay for my whole trip and it was all because of his kindness to me. I told him many things; trouble is I don't know how much he could hear or understand; he's drugged up and out of it. I guess I'm saying this partly to unload my guilt for speaking so negatively about him even though I know the guilt will stay with me forever. He has always been very unfiltered, unkind to many people, but he's also one to give you the shirt off his back if you needed something. I hope I can take this as a teaching lesson in my life and remember to think before I vent or speak or talk negatively about someone again. It all comes down to.... we're all on this earth doing the best we can with what we have and what we are. Our backgrounds, upbringings, personalities, goals and needs are all different. Lessons learned on your deathbed are lessons learned too late. Be kind to everyone. You never know what their life and struggles are like.
