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    Kindness is future proof

    This post is not about Minecraft. However, feel free to take the message and apply it there.

    This post instead is an encouragement towards kindness. An act that can’t be pay-walled, made obsolete or enshittified.

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    It’s been snowing, and snowing, and cold, so cold.

    This morning I was running late. My child was awake in the night and sleep was interrupted for the remainder of the night. I hit snooze a couple extra times. The bike into work didn’t make up for anytime time lost catching sleep.

    A fuel truck blocked a back-lane we use to connect disconnected side-walks. Side-walks we use to get to day-care in the absence of safe bike infrastructure. When automotive infrastructure ignores our 6 months of winter I’m not sure why I expect the bike infrastructure to.

    Someone was stuck

    We stopped, I helped as much as I could. My daughter was getting cold and we had to move on.

    I was assured more help was coming. I gave my advice/experience on vehicles stuck in the snow to someone who didn’t have that and departed.

    Kindness is future-proof

    Things are hard right now and many things feel out of our control. We’ve been coached that we can’t control these things, but maybe we can.

    Help who you can, and If you can’t help be kind. If you have influence in you’re work  among friends or in your family use it. Spread kindness to others, and most importantly yourself.

    At first we were told that if we want something we should pay for it. Then that we need to subscribe for it. And now that you were wrong and the product does this more important thing that you didn’t ask for.

    The chosen one

    I’ve been following a mastodon instance that writes micro-fictions. One has hung with me for more than a year now.

    This micro fiction freed me from some guilt. I’m not suggesting we don’t make time to do things for others; volunteer our time to make change. To get out and vote, to make small changes in our lives that benefit the planet or others. and stand up when someone says something out of line.

    The post reads: "You are," the hooded figures said gravely, "the Chosen One." The gardener looked up. "Really?" "You are Destined to save the world from a Great Evil." "Fancy that." "Come with us." "Nah, too much to do." "But... your Destiny." "How do you know it's not my weeding that'll do it?"
    The gardener https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/112525697476049276

    Most of us live in a world where a large amount of our time as adults goes into sustaining a stable life. With the time that is left over, you need to take time to fill your bucket.

    But how do we not know that spreading peace; love and dedication in our own passions isn’t what saves the world.

    Wrap up

    My posts are going to be shorter for a while here. Between competing life pressures (many good) I am struggling to meet the demands of the format I’ve set up.

    I am going to keep writing, I hope you keep creating too. There will be a shift in the content. I’ll talk about that more in the next post. 

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