Gisteren een oproep op FB. Jonge moeder was bij de bushalte pak luiers vergeten dat ze net had gekocht. Paniek, want geen geld voor nieuwe.
En zo eindigde het.
Allebei blij❤️
(En ik hoop dat de man die het volgens getuigen meenam ze alsnog terugbezorgt.)
Peter Lammer, a chef in Germany, was involved in a motorcycle accident.
After his rehabilitation, doctors recommended he retire. Instead, with the help of friends, he developed a practical mobile seat to keep working.
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.
I was on a train and a pregnant woman was asking for a seat. I offered mine, but she said she couldn’t sit there because it was in the center and she was already feeling nauseous and suffocated. So she asked a guy at the corner. He said, “You can sit on my lap.” Before anyone could react, a grandma behind him tapped his shoulder and said, “Then I’ll sit on YOUR lap.” She sat on his lap, the pregnant woman took the grandma’s seat, and the entire train witnessed instant justice delivered by a 70-year-old legend.
The best decision I ever made was marrying you, @MichelleObama. For 33 years, I’ve admired your strength, grace, and determination — and the fact that you look so good doing it all. Happy anniversary!
2. Habitual Affectionate Gestures:
One thing you can be certain successful couples engage in a lot is physical affection. The recurrent forehead kisses, multiple daily hugs, handholding, cuddling, beard rubbing, hair fiddling… successful couples are always reassuring one another of their affections through wholesome, non-sexual physical contact. A lot of times, they don’t even realize they’re doing it!