Could you guys bring up the viewer count of the video "08 Wish you were here" on the YouTube channel "Piller Music JMF"? This sounds like advertisement, but it's a Christmas podcast of my school and that particular song is sung by the girl I want to confess my love to. Therefore I beg you to just watch or listen to the video (maybe even on mute), so she and every other young musician at our school knows they are recognised and appreciated - because if one barrier holds people from enganging in their dreams, it's a lack of recognition. I know it's a lot to ask for, but I know we are a lot and can hopefully help each other out...

One of my neighbors set up this book box where you can exchange books to read!

I was struggling to open my vitamin water! This gentleman sitting across from me saw me struggling and opened it for me. It was such a small gesture but his kindness really made my day 🥰

He stops at our office building to eat lunch everyday and he decides to cook us lunch for Christmas.

I have a 7w baby boy and today he was in such a good mood that he kept smiling, making us and the strangers we bumped into so happy. He also has had unexplained rashes on his face since he was a 2 week old, but it has been clearing and his skin looks so great today.

Im such a happy mum today :)

the look of love in my dad’s eyes always makes me smile ❤️

My partner has been out of town for 3 weeks. This is the longest and most stressful work trip he’s ever been on. They made him do a night shift schedule when he usually does days, and then switch to days 2 days ago after arriving to a different facility he’s helping at. I can tell he’s stressed, he will be getting home the 22nd right before Christmas! I’m a little worried for him so…I’m attempting to help bring his mood up I guess? I cleaned his car, vacuumed and everything, I’ve cleaned our place and meal prepped. We will be together for 3 years in March and we don’t have a scrap book for any of our memories. His birthday is the 30th of December, so I always throw him a NYE party, which he knows about and I will. But I made a scrap book of our adventures and milestones 😄 I can’t wait to show it to him. I put close to 80 photos in it and I’ve categorized his friends and our vacations and holidays. I also put our cat in it with different ages of him throughout our relationship hehe. Sorry I’m ecstatic, I’ve been home alone so I can’t tell this to anyone except for my cat lol thanks for reading.

After WWII in 1949 the country of Indonesia (a Dutch colony at the time) gained their independence from the Netherlands.

My family is of mixed European and Asian descent and were Dutch citizens. The Indonesian government required all Dutch citizens to renounce their citizenship and become Indonesian citizens if they wanted to stay. Many chose to leave to their “mother” country, the Netherlands, or to Australia, or the United States.

My grandmother’s only surviving immediate family, one younger brother and her mother, left for Australia. At the time Australia’s strict immigration laws only allowed for white or white-passing people to enter. My grandmother’s family were fair skinned and had lighter hair. My grandmother did not.

My grandmother stayed in Indonesia, got married, left for the Netherlands in 1960 when Dutch citizens could no longer postpone renouncing their citizenship, had 10 kids, and lived a quiet and humble life.

My grandparents didn’t travel much, what with the ten kids and all, and her brother never had the means to visit either.

For my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary, the ten kids chipped in and bought her brother and his wife tickets to surprise my grandmother.

This photo is the moment after he walked in the house and sat down next to her.

One of my patients found out our birthdays are a day apart so made this for me 😊😊😊

I (24F) have been dating my fiancée (24M) for just over 4 years now. Before him, I had no hobbies. I always just threw myself into my work, schooling or whatever tasks I had. Outside of that, nothing that brought me joy or fulfillment. When we first started dating, I noticed he had a lot of interests. These ranged all the way from metrovania games, tcg card games, all the way to things like transformers and dark souls lore. At first I was so disinterested, until one day I asked a question about something (I can’t even remember what it was about, but I remember how big the smile was on his face was) He and I are both neurodivergent, and I could tell having a place to talk about his interests really boosted his mood, so I decided to try to be more present when he talked about things he enjoyed.

Not too long after that, a mutual friend introduced him to Gunpla model kits. I was intrigued because I always enjoyed things like legos, or other “building” toys and such. After seeing him build one or two, I went with him to the local hobby shop where he purchased them. That same day I saw a unicorn gudam high grade build kit (IYKYK) and although he knew what I was in for, he bought it and we built kits together for the first time. This would become a regular occurrence in our household. To date, together combined we have over 30 kits built (We shared a fixation for a few months) and I’m even delving into custom painting my kits.

Next, the same mutual friend and his girlfriend invited us to play a game of commander. I had never touched magic cards before, and he had limited knowledge and experience as well. Turns out, we both loved it, and now we play 2 player commander games against each other all the time. (Except when he plays eldrazi. Fuck eldrazi) And now I am building my own decks and coming up with combos. Moth man currently being my next deck to upgrade.

Outside of other things he has introduced me to, he has opened a world for me of exploration into arts, literature, media and entertainment. I grew up with the mentality that if I wasn’t good at it, or if I didn’t keep up with it for a considerable amount of time, it’s not worth it to try. Now he has helped me form positive outlooks at exploring my interests. If I pick it up just to put it down, it was still worth the try. Because of this, I have made artwork I would have never felt I was capable of making, I have explored more music genres and even started writing my own songs. I have enjoyed reading lore and playing new video games.

I had a million reasons to fall in love with him already, but I have really noticed the positive impact he has had on my creativity and my expression. I am so glad to have him.

My newest endeavor? Trying to crochet. Let’s hope for the best!

One of my cats used to bring her feral friends in thru the doggy door to eat and when it got cold, to sleep. She died a few years ago and her last buddy, Ahk (short for A**hole Kitty), still came in. He startles the crap out of me and helps himself to kibble. In winter he sleeps in the corner by the fridge. He’s a total jerk but is a result of my sweetest girl, Dibs.

Haven’t seen him for months and started to think he’d crossed the bridge. Was driving out to work the other day and there he was - Ahk!!

Hope he makes it through another winter scaring the crap out of me walking across the kitchen in the dark!! I’ll keep the kibble bowl full…

hello all! i'm scrolling through this sub crying because i'm so happy for everyone, but a lot of these are soooo short. i need some long holiday ones to cheer me up this season. i don't care how old they are. i recently cut off my sister, which means i'm not seeing most of my family, my fiance and i are in a new state where we only know eachother and the family i'm not seeing... also have been going through a rough patch. thank you in advance and enjoy this picture of my cat under our tree!

I had a long talk with my mum after some realisations today and recently. Most of my life I can admit I’ve made mistakes and been in bad situation. I have trauma and issues because of it and I’m not letting that rule me.

After debating with myself and thinking, I’ve realised that I’m actually happy with who I am and what I can do. I’ve been able to do things the old me can’t, I was able to ask a tranger a question, order food without anxiety or having to use an app. I’m more happy than I’ve been in my life before. I know I’ve got a lot left to live but it feels good to not be sad or anxious about everything.

I feel happy.

My mother lost her best friend to cancer around 2015. I was just messing with an old tablet she’s given to my toddler to play with when she visits, and its still attached to her calendar. I just found that she still has a repeating appointment for every Thursday of every week to go to lunch with this best friend. She’s never removed the alert and I know she never will.

I just got accepted into one of my preferred colleges, im saying it here coz I feel a little lonely and don’t have all the people I’d like to tell. My grandparents died recently and my bestf and I haven’t been talking for a while, this is something we used to stay up at night and talk about and wish for. But I GOT INTO COLLEGE HEHE