Most of us grew up hearing the phrase: "Don't judge a book by its cover."
It’s good advice, but I think we miss the deeper truth behind it. We usually apply it to outward appearances, but what about when a book just... stops? What about when a familiar presence suddenly vanishes from your feed, your community, or your life?
When someone goes silent, pulls away, or has a sudden "exodus," the outside world is quick to fill in the blanks. People assume they gave up. People assume they stopped caring. People make up a story that fits what they can see from the outside, taking it personally or writing the person off completely.
We judge the sudden absence without ever realizing what led to the quiet.
That saying needs to be permanently coupled with another one: Put yourself in the other person’s shoes.
Sometimes people don’t walk away because they wanted to leave the things they love. Sometimes they get lost in a heavy storm. Sometimes life hits them with a private battle, a personal struggle, or a numbness so thick that they simply don't have the energy left to keep up appearances. They aren't abandoning their passion—they're just trying to survive the fog.
If you see someone go quiet, don't rush to judge the ending of their chapter. Remember that you only see the surface of their cover, not the heavy pages they've had to turn in private. A little empathy goes a further way than an assumption ever will.
#Perspective #PutYourselfInTheirShoes #EmpathyFirst #MentalHealthAwareness #BehindTheScenes #HumanFirst #LifeLessons #MindsetShift
He stood in front of the judge and told her he was working, staying out of trouble and "in a better place in my mind." She said she was sending him to prison anyway. Before she could finish the sentence, he was flying over her bench:
In the video below, the courtroom camera catches the whole thing.
January 3, 2024. Clark County District Court, Las Vegas. Deobra Redden was 30, a three-time felon, there to be sentenced for attempted battery. He'd beaten a man with a baseball bat the year before.
He'd even said he understood. "If it's appropriate for you, then you gotta do what you gotta do."
Then Judge Mary Kay Holthus started reading out the prison term. He ran at her, cleared the bench in one jump and landed on top of her. Her marshal, her clerk and a lawyer in the room piled on to drag him off.
The marshal was treated for a head injury. The clerk was scraped up. The judge was back on the bench the next day.
Afterwards he told guards he'd had a bad day and tried to kill the judge.
He had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. His lawyer said he hadn't been taking his medication. He pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder and five other charges.
In December 2024 he got 26 to 65 years. At sentencing he said he didn't remember much of that day, and that he isn't an evil person.
The judge testified she thought she was going to die.
Does untreated mental illness change how much blame he deserves, or is attacking a judge in her own courtroom unforgivable no matter what?
As soon as I start working out, she gets all interested. She starts looking at me through the glass and if I don’t pay attention to her, she will start bobbing her head up and down until I open the door and put my hand out and she rushes onto my hand.
My bearded dragon likes to come out of her terrarium when I work out, she falls asleep while watching me. I cover her up because she’s supposed to be warm.
I was recently doing some research on Bitcoin’s historical moves in bear markets. It seems like #Bitcoin has historically moved between 77% and 85% down from its all-time high of the bull market before it finally bottoms out and goes back up again.
Looking at past cycles, the drops from the peak to the bottom of the dip have actually been getting smaller each time:
•2013–2015 cycle: Down about 85%
•2017–2018 cycle: Down about 83%
•2021–2022 cycle: Down about 77%
Right now, sitting around $73,500, we are roughly 41% down from our all-time high. It kind of reminds me of how the old stock market used to go through wild, boom-and-bust cycles before it finally leveled out and stabilized over generations.
Because of that historical trend of each cycle having a smaller drop from the peak to the bottom of the dip than the last, it seems like we may actually see less than a 77% maximum dip on this run down.
That being said, I believe that we are going to see more of a dip before we finally bottom out and go up again, but I could be wrong. What are everybody else's thoughts?
Most people complain that they didn’t get in on time and then when they get a chance to get in at the prices, they wish they would’ve gotten in the first place. They pass it up for the second time.
It’s like that fable where the guy is on the roof in a flood, calling for God to give him a sign and he passes down several boats that wanted to rescue him. The signs are there you just have to have your eyes open and be willing to see it when it comes.
Gotta love it when you’re talking to Normie‘s about crypto and you feel like they are making fun of you when they talk back to you about it.
We will have the last laugh in the end.
Yes I agree. I think a lot of those people who attacked you in your last post about that sorority girl are just falling in line with the rest of the sheep. Mainstream media has completely pit everyone against one another. Mainstream media will focus on what cells and not the whole truth or nothing but the truth.
This is very evident when we see
Stories like the September 12, 2026 assault near York College of Pennsylvania. This is where a group of black guys beat a couple white girls down and only two local news sources and fox news covered it but then there are many different cases where the tables were turned, and every new source in the world was covering it.
We need to fix the broken system by holding our news sources accountable for instigating race wars
@LisaLisa Fall is wonderful but summer is my favorite. Mainly because i love kayaking. We kayak a lot durring the spring and summer. This last spring we chose to do a lot of hiking while it was still cool out then kayaking in the summer.