edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦

Steady focus can reveal what we need to know about ourselves.
Allowing others to control this in any way is the loss of personal autonomy and personal power.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@Mr_Husky1 Why not just copy what everyone else is posting?
It will save you a lot of work!
It's not like there is a retweet button anyway. Right?
https://t.co/DAx9paQIS1

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In July 2013, five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas vanished while playing near her home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, triggering an urgent community search.

Among the volunteers were 15-year-old Temar Boggs and his friend Chris Garcia, who decided they couldn't just stand by.

The two teenagers grabbed their bicycles and joined the effort, riding through nearby streets while keeping an eye out for anything unusual.

Not long into their search, they noticed a young girl matching Jocelyn's description sitting inside a vehicle.

Convinced they had found her, the boys began pursuing the car on their bikes, staying behind it for roughly 15 minutes and refusing to give up despite being vastly outmatched.

Realizing he was being followed, the driver eventually stopped and let the little girl out of the vehicle before fleeing the scene.

Jocelyn was found unharmed and safely reunited with her family.

Police later arrested 73-year-old Troyer Robert Glass in connection with the abduction.

Temar Boggs' determination and quick thinking transformed an ordinary summer afternoon into an extraordinary act of courage, proving that sometimes heroes are simply teenagers who choose to act when others might hesitate.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@Mr_Husky1 Word for word?
Have you copied this post?
Why not just retweet instead of pretending it's yours?
https://t.co/gZmkYVaQzS

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"If I have given birth to six children, then I will bring out six children."

Those words were the only thing keeping a young mother moving as she ran barelegged into a roaring furnace. Six children were trapped inside a house that was quickly turning to ash.

The air was thick with toxic black smoke, the wooden stairs were collapsing, and the heat was melting everything in sight. Any normal human being would have backed away, frozen in terror.

But Emma Schols was not thinking like a normal human being. She was thinking like a mother.

It was an ordinary night in the small town of Edsbyn, Sweden, when the thirty-one-year-old mother woke up to a nightmare. Thick smoke filled her bedroom. Within seconds, she realized that her entire home was on fire. There was no time to wait for firefighters, and there was no time to think about her own safety. Barefoot and completely unprotected, Emma ran straight into the blazing heat.

The fire was aggressive, but Emma was more determined. She forced her way up the burning staircase to reach the bedrooms where her six children were sleeping. One by one, she gathered them. To protect the youngest ones from the spreading flames, she had to make the terrifying decision to drop them out of a second-floor window into safety.

Even when the staircase finally crumbled into ash, cutting off her exit, Emma refused to stop. She went back into the inferno four separate times. She inhaled thick, poisonous smoke and felt the fire consume her skin, but she kept moving. She pulled every single one of her six children out of that burning house. Because of her incredible bravery, not a single one of her children suffered a single scratch.

Emma paid a terrible price for her heroism. She collapsed immediately after the rescue and was rushed to the hospital, where doctors put her into a medical coma to save her life. Fire had destroyed ninety-three percent of her body, leaving her with severe, life-threatening burns. She spent more than two months fighting for her life in that hospital bed and underwent more than twenty complex surgeries.

When Emma finally opened her eyes and gained consciousness, she could not see her own reflection, and she could not feel her limbs. But her mind was focused on only one thing. She looked at the doctors and asked, "Are my children okay?"

Hearing that all six of them were safe and unharmed was the only medicine she truly needed. In the year 2020, Sweden officially named Emma the Hero of the Year.

Today, her body carries deep scars from that awful night, but she views them as medals of honor rather than marks of tragedy.

She proved that when a mother loves her children, she becomes completely unstoppable.

Love did not just survive the fire that night. Love won.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@willow_wwhimsy STOP that at once!! 🤣

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

Okay.

[John Getchel @JohnGetchel]

Post a random photo from your gallery.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@WayneMoranPhot0 During a timed photo at night, I dropped the flashlight.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@worthitornoteh This was when television in Canada was highly censored.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@nationalpost @calgaryeconomic Getting paid to share the narrative is not the same as the facts.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@aestheticsguyy Approaching the eclipse of our sun.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@ah_lorelei @UweBollRAWNet @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @BollFILMS @CitizenVMovie @imagine Right. Because murder will never end with the last target dead. That's when violence turns inward.
Killers killing one another is all there is then left.
What does the following generation learn from this?
~Not to solve the true 'problem'.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@OtterMan841 I'd love to meet the loser you really are.
Hiding behind a shallow account, behaving like a fool .
Look at my face, fool. For I am a real man who has lived. Truly lived.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@scs_real Wth!!
I felt the 'drop'!

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@RealHughJackman @PrimeVideo Justice!

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@hairyemma111 Is this one of those posts, like "Show me yours, I'll show you mine?" 😉

I've joked about braiding my hair and beard into my armpit hair.
What's the worst that can happen?

-hows that for 'honest'? -lol

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

There is much to be said for this vilification of persona, @guyfelicella
From vilification to victory — the world loves the fall, rarely cheers the climb. Society often rants about how far and fast someone may fall.
Rarely do we hear how exciting it is when a person moves out of the darkness and into the light.

Mike Tyson
Robert Downey Jr.
Oprah Winfrey
Nelson Mandela
J.K. Rowling
Malcolm X
Tiger Woods

These are some examples of public falls followed by meaningful recovery, healing, and renewed victories.

This has me wanting to share how I feel. Especially when people do tend to hammer on the bits that people struggle through.

Pointing out the negative all of the way along and remembering this the most. Yet, when a person makes a solid effort to change for the better few point out the hurdles they've overcome. The positive effort, achievements and victories they've made along the way.

It's a very chaotic and one-sided way of seeing one another. THIS is the hurdle of humanity as hate pushes the world into the corner, forgetting to praise those who have worked the hardest to recover their self worth; the new image they want to broadcast to a world that refuses to hear.

It's like that friend who turned their back on you when you needed them most, only to return to you when they need your support.

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

@jasonllevin

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

The sky is blue.
Yet in a torrential downpour, that truth feels distant — the sun still shines elsewhere, just not where the storm is.

With stats, news, or hot takes on X. Context, scope, and nuance matter. One lens rarely tells the full story.
What 'blue sky' truths are we missing in the rain today? ☀️🌧️

*Grok creation:

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

Just another hole for a subscription to fill.

Rockstar Games Responds to GTA 6 Physical Disc Backlash https://t.co/wivHNaBBHs

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

Interesting.
Explore the world's mineral reserves and discover which countries control key resources powering industry and the energy transition. https://t.co/NJznLV88hH via @visualcap

[edward kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 @eddeindeed1]

Wow! Look at the transition of the destruction as they descend the stairs!

Game designers can really learn something from this I think.
#Venezuela

[🇻🇪 amilcarrock 🇺🇦 @amilcarrock]

Venezolano se graba corriendo las escaleras de su edificio mientras ocurría los dos terremotos que azotaron Venezuela, se pueden ver como las escaleras están agrietadas.