Footage from Japan 🇯🇵… A cat, curled up with its favorite plush toy 🧸, was captured sleeping alongside the girl it grew up with, and the clips quickly went viral on social media 🥹 Melting the hearts of everyone who saw them 🫠♥️
My nephew was eating watermelon, and I told him, "If you swallow the seed, it will grow in your stomach." He looked me straight in the eyes and said, no, because there’s no sun in his stomach… then asked if I skipped classes. He is 6 years old.
The novel behind Bridge to Terabithia (2007) was written by Katherine Paterson to help her 8-year-old son cope with the death of his best friend, who was struck by lightning. Years later, her son went on to produce the film.
This is an example of natural water filtration. Most of the drinkable water our ancestors consumed in our villages passed through this type of filtration.
This woman tried to hold a parking spot and assumed the guy had given up when he stopped his car – only for the self-driving feature to finish the job. 😂😂
A conversation with a man:
Me: All men
Him: Not all men
Me: okay. You have a daughter, right? Would you be comfortable with her going to a party with a bunch of other girls, with no boys present?
Him: yes (without hesitation)
Me: cool. Would you be comfortable with her going to a party with a bunch of boys, with no girls present.
Him: no (without hesitation)
Me: why?
Him: Cause there will be at least 2-3 boys who are a problem.
Me: cool. So if those 2-3 boys do something horrible, will the other boys step in? Say something? Tell someone?
Him: (hesitates)....
Me: exactly. All men.
For almost two months, I was convinced my friend group had a separate group chat without me.
Plans would get mentioned casually, “oh yeah, like we said earlier”, and I’d just stand there like 🙂 earlier where? If I walked into the room and they stopped laughing, my brain immediately titled it: Season 2: The Quiet Exile. I started analyzing delivery times, inside jokes, who viewed my stories but didn’t reply. Every late response felt intentional. Every “we forgot to tell you” felt strategic.
One night I finally joked, “So what’s the name of the secret group chat?”
They all looked confused.
Turns out there was another group chat, but it was for planning a surprise birthday thing for me. The reason they’d go quiet? They were terrible at lying. The “earlier” conversations? About work, not me. The late replies? Two of them had just started new jobs and one was going through a breakup.
Meanwhile, I had already mentally written a betrayal arc, drafted my villain origin speech, and emotionally distanced myself for protection.
The stupidest part? Nobody was excluding me.
I was just overprotecting myself from a threat that didn’t exist.
That’s when I realized, sometimes the only person putting me on the outside… is me.
A dog was diagnosed with depression after suffering a miscarriage, and vets decided that working with kids at a local school would be good for her. She has never been happier.