Keeanu Reeves
He was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident.
His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister has leukemia.
And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need.
When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $ 20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account;
He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals.
In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.
After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $ 50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them.
He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars.
In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.
Most stars when they make a charitable gesture they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others.
This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: Be a good person.
90s kids will want to read this โ just trust me.
I watched a TikTok asking why millennials have such a deep attachment to nostalgia. "I can easily answer that," I thought, eating Lucky Charms and wearing a tattoo choker.
It's simple, really โ the 90s were anything we wanted it to be. It was a world made for us; or it felt like it, at least.
It was the age of change, and weโll never be able to get back the newness of how it all felt. Internet, technology, communication, clothes, toys, food โ it was all new, and specifically marketed to our generation.
We saw the world in VIVID color, and now everything seems almost muted in comparison. [If we're in a simulation, can someone please bump the saturation back up 20%, thanks]
The magical time period before everything went to hell with 9/11, war, recessions, and being forced to grow into people we didnโt want to be.
We went from being the generation everyone loved and hoped for, to the generation who ruined everything without even knowing it. From "Be Kind, Rewind" kids to "Economy-Ruining" adults overnight, somehow.
So we cling to items that bring us back to our past, and search for anything that might give us those same goosebumps we felt hearing the *door opening* sound of AOL Instant Messenger.
With our 90s/2000s playlists on repeat, we venture out into a world that is no longer made for us. No longer cares what we prefer, and blames us for the problems it faces.
So with all that being said, there shouldn't be any wonder why the 90s still has a chokehold over me and so many of us โ it refuses to let go, and we'd be sad if it did.
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