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Good job, Lonnie! WW salutes you!
It feels good to help someone.
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Hats off to you Lonnie - thats great! Boo @ that dealer trying to sell her a new car
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Thanks for all the kind words, but you should try to go out of your way and do something for someone. Look around. It's easy and the rewards come from within. Make sure you do it for the person you're helping, and not for public notice. Public notice clouds up the process and deprives you of the real benefit of helping. I posted this thread because I knew it would remain anonymous and I could share the wealth without corruption. The 12 year old boy is now going to help the little 'ole lady down the street put out her trash every Wednesday. He noticed her struggling, last Saturday, with the lid to the trash can while he was helping us. And it gets better. She's a retired college professor, a PHD in math and physics and is going to help him with his math. The kid is a math wiz in school and driving the teachers nuts because the teachers can't keep him tied down the the school ciriculim. The woman is thrilled that she will have a visitor and that some is interested in what she has to say. I stopped by to visit with her to make sure she was okay with her new visitor and found out that she is thrilled. She is digging out books and going to bake cookies and gave me big hug. Saturday is turning out to have been a good day, a very good day.
Lonnie, I hope you get to see the good you did springing up as the years go by. Next door neighbor of twenty-eight years ago did the middle age crazy thing, leaving a wife and four kiddos to fend for themselves. Long story short, keeping an Opel GT and a '77 Volare wagon running long enough for the last one to leave home and the single mom to support herself and a new vehicle was the right thing for me to do, but the contributions to society those four kids are now making is a huge bonus. At last count, one teacher, one IBM exec's wife, one RN, and an attorney (well, three out of four's not bad). Still get weepy seeing the grandkid pictures at Christmas time. Doing the right thing is not always so obviously rewarded, but it is STILL the right thing.
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Great event. Thanks for sharing the joy.
I try and extend an attitude of goodwill toward all in terms of "works". Keep in mind that I'm basically lazy, but it doesn't stop me from pitching in toward the greater good. I've pondered greatly my station in life and realized that although I cannot save them all, I can surely relieve hardship and suffering of those who are within my view. It doesn't take tremendous sacrifice 24/7 ...just an attitude that you're going to make someone's life better ..maybe just for that day or moment ....and I've also gotten a grip on the fact that there may not be that feeling of reward in the giving. Many times goodwill is materialized in the doing of the mundane and will not be reflected in terms of appreciation. That which I give I don't give on my behalf although I do "feel good" about it. It's kinda an implied obligation of my para-philosophy, if you get what I mean. It's one of the finer points of your humanity that you can put to use everyday.
I try and extend an attitude of goodwill toward all in terms of "works". Keep in mind that I'm basically lazy, but it doesn't stop me from pitching in toward the greater good. I've pondered greatly my station in life and realized that although I cannot save them all, I can surely relieve hardship and suffering of those who are within my view. It doesn't take tremendous sacrifice 24/7 ...just an attitude that you're going to make someone's life better ..maybe just for that day or moment ....and I've also gotten a grip on the fact that there may not be that feeling of reward in the giving. Many times goodwill is materialized in the doing of the mundane and will not be reflected in terms of appreciation. That which I give I don't give on my behalf although I do "feel good" about it. It's kinda an implied obligation of my para-philosophy, if you get what I mean. It's one of the finer points of your humanity that you can put to use everyday.
troberts, you did something good thing. Maybe you now know that satisfaction comes from within. I've done a couple of these kind of projects and each time is like the first time.
...and you guys got her flowers, too?!
Very well done, very well done indeed. That's the way things should be.
Very well done, very well done indeed. That's the way things should be.
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In my neighborhood, I have two widows that sometimes need help (clean gutters, change a flat, etc.). I always manage to find time for them.
Conversely, I also have a lame (literally) neighbor that belly-aches about work that needs to be done, like clean up storm damage in their yard. The problem is that he also has a healthy 18yo daughter with infant and her hot-rod husband, who don't care to do anything around the yard. To them I turn a deaf ear.
Conversely, I also have a lame (literally) neighbor that belly-aches about work that needs to be done, like clean up storm damage in their yard. The problem is that he also has a healthy 18yo daughter with infant and her hot-rod husband, who don't care to do anything around the yard. To them I turn a deaf ear.
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