A Gen Z colleague at my workplace was offered a promotion after only two years with the company. Everyone expected him to accept it because it came with a better title and he'd been complaining about career growth. Then he asked what the salary increase would be. The manager..
Let me personalize this. When my daughter was in the 5th grade her teacher told us she needed to do something about her ADD difficulties. The school called my wife in and a team of Administrators insisted she needed to start taking medication. My wife absolutely refused and told them if they ever brought it up again we would get a lawyer. Even that far back she realized our daughter would be branded for life as a mental case if we went along with this. Note that she really does have ADD. We had to mostly homeschool her to get her passing grades in school.
But she learned how to cope with it, went on to college, and her first job was ... teaching a classroom of ADD kids. When she decided to move on they begged her to stay saying they had never had anyone able to teach them the way she did. No surprise. She was one of them and they related to her like no one else could.
All this to say that we have gone wayyyyy to far in labeling everything a mental illness when it's mostly just people being odd. The way people are most of the time.
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A pharmaceutical company had a new drug - a sedative for pregnant women. Already prescribed across Europe.
Already making millions. They needed one FDA reviewer to sign off on it. They got her.
She was one month into the job. She read the application. The safety data wasn't there. She asked for more. They called her office 50 times. Crowded her office. Called her names she said you wouldn't print. She kept saying no.
Then the reports started coming from Europe. Babies born without arms. Without legs. The one thing connecting their mothers - the drug sitting on her desk waiting for her signature. In America - 17 babies were affected. In Europe -10,000.
Congress passed the Kefauver-Harris Amendment that same year. Every drug in America had to prove it was safe before reaching a single patient. Because of her. Her name was Frances Oldham Kelsey. Her acceptance letter had said Dear Mr. Oldham. They hought she was a man.
Curiosity is stronger than love.
A reporter asked him, “How so?”
“I’m 94 years old, and I got married at 23.
But at 46, my wife left me.
She told me that she had become invisible now…
that I was working too much and I wasn’t paying enough attention to her anymore.
I told her that it wasn’t possible, that I loved her more than everything, and it was true but…
that’s when she asked me:
do you know when was the last time you came to see me play bridge?
I didn’t know how to answer, and she said…
‘It’s normal. You never came.’
And she left.
So I made a decision…
In the months that followed, I signed up for bridge lessons and…
I learned how to play, I practiced, I researched, and one day…
I saw there was going to be a tournament near our home. So I signed up and…
She was in the other team. I was seeing her for the first time in nearly a year…
Of course, she beat me.
But I saw a feeling in her eyes that I hadn’t seen for a long time.
Gratitude.
So at the end, I went to see her and I told her…
‘If you agree to give me a second chance, I’ll never miss any of your competitions again.’
I kept my word.
She passed away 8 years ago but…
She taught me the most precious of the lessons:
“Love isn’t enough, you have to know how to show it.”
first, why would you replace her phone when she threw yours first?
but if you really wanted to replace it, give her the samsung equivalent of her old phone so that it won't break the next time 😭
My girlfriend and I had a small misunderstanding because she saw a chat on my phone that led to a serious argument. In the heat of the moment, she took my phone and threw it on the floor. Out of anger, I grabbed hers and smashed it too.
Later, I realized that my phone wasn’t damaged, but hers was completely ruined. I went to fix it today, but it couldn’t be fixed. Because of that, I bought her a Samsung Galaxy S8 as a temporary replacement. However, the phone I damaged was an iPhone 14 Pro Max, so she refused to accept the Samsung.
I’ve asked her to be patient until I can afford to replace it with another iPhone, but she’s still very upset with me. What should I do?