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Things like this...
12-15-2009, 04:22 AM
restores my hope in people
Mystery Couple Starts
"Magical" Chain Reaction
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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I do appreciate hearing about these sorts of Random Acts of Kindness.
That puts to shame my occasional Saturday afternoons at various tourist spots, watching for couples who take each other's photo in front of a landmark and
offering to take photos of both of them. Those folks know who I am, even if only by sight - the people in this story don't know who to thank.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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Very Nice.
It seems like people now (and I am definitely guilty of this) are wrapped up in their own world. And random acts of kindness like this make double the impact. Once because it's a nice and unexpected thing to do, and second because there is no way to pay them back.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
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Great story. What's sad is that in the instant "readers' reaction" poll at the side of the article, 8% of people reading this story say they are "furious" about it. Dear god in heaven, why?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
It didn't happen at their restaurant that they frequent, so that they could take advantage of the 'Magic'.
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My theory is that there's some people that are just grinches like that. They are the sort that like to go around torturing the NPCs in games like Bioshock
and GTA just because they can, and then post videos of it on Youtube. I've actually known an individual such as this, and I didn't speak with him much
more after his incredibly tasteless and squick-inducing flash video commemorating the 9/11 attacks got blammed from Newgrounds within four hours of posting.
