Brother Nature
Well-known member
Hey guys,
I thought it'd be nice to start a thread that discusses only positive things. As much as I enjoy the political and philosophical threads, a lot of them are very divisive and often devolve into very negative territory. It's not always nice to be around that and negativity tends to beget more negativity. I personally had to take a good break from the site recently as it was effecting me in a way I didn't like so I feel it'd be nice to have a thread where we can discuss positive things that have happened to us or others. Things like going to your dealers place to find out he's got nothing then happening upon a discarded half eighth on the way home.
I'll start with a nice thing that happened to me a couple days ago.
I had to go into the main city for some work recently on the same day I took my car in for a service. So I was driving in trying to find a park in a very shitty loaner car. It happens to cost about $10 per hour to park here and you can only pay by the hour. I find this annoying and coupled to having to drive an unfamiliar car in rush hour I was a little annoyed to start. I eventually find a good parking spot not too far from where my meeting was. I manage to do a decent parallel parking job and notice the car in front of me is a very new Bentley with a guy inside. As I finish parking the guy in the Bentley gets out and starts walking to my car, looking directly at me. My first thought is "Ugh, so this guy's gonna tell me I'm too close to his car or something equally as wankerish." But, no, he knocks on my window, tells me he's only been parked for about 5 minutes and has nearly an hour left on his ticket and asks if I'd want it. So I take it, go to my quick meeting and still have about 10 minutes left on the parking ticket. I know it's only a little thing, but it really restored my faith in humanity that day, it made me feel really good and I made a major effort to treat everyone else I met that day with the same unassuming kindness.
I hope you guys can also share some kindness you've received, or even just positive news stories you come across. I know this world isn't all roses and puppies, but it's not all bad too so lets talk about some of the good shit.
I thought it'd be nice to start a thread that discusses only positive things. As much as I enjoy the political and philosophical threads, a lot of them are very divisive and often devolve into very negative territory. It's not always nice to be around that and negativity tends to beget more negativity. I personally had to take a good break from the site recently as it was effecting me in a way I didn't like so I feel it'd be nice to have a thread where we can discuss positive things that have happened to us or others. Things like going to your dealers place to find out he's got nothing then happening upon a discarded half eighth on the way home.
I'll start with a nice thing that happened to me a couple days ago.
I had to go into the main city for some work recently on the same day I took my car in for a service. So I was driving in trying to find a park in a very shitty loaner car. It happens to cost about $10 per hour to park here and you can only pay by the hour. I find this annoying and coupled to having to drive an unfamiliar car in rush hour I was a little annoyed to start. I eventually find a good parking spot not too far from where my meeting was. I manage to do a decent parallel parking job and notice the car in front of me is a very new Bentley with a guy inside. As I finish parking the guy in the Bentley gets out and starts walking to my car, looking directly at me. My first thought is "Ugh, so this guy's gonna tell me I'm too close to his car or something equally as wankerish." But, no, he knocks on my window, tells me he's only been parked for about 5 minutes and has nearly an hour left on his ticket and asks if I'd want it. So I take it, go to my quick meeting and still have about 10 minutes left on the parking ticket. I know it's only a little thing, but it really restored my faith in humanity that day, it made me feel really good and I made a major effort to treat everyone else I met that day with the same unassuming kindness.
I hope you guys can also share some kindness you've received, or even just positive news stories you come across. I know this world isn't all roses and puppies, but it's not all bad too so lets talk about some of the good shit.
" Please try again later."
