Love you

Got a text from an old friend yesterday. Made me feel bad. I pray for him and his probably once a month but I'm terrible about reaching out.

Haha the people I love are busy buying toys, investment properties and going on lavish vacations. I think they’re good. Maybe they can call me and my family once in a while.

🫂

Love is a strong word 😂 How is everything going with you?

Why do you feel bad? I don’t think that’s what your friend wants when he reaches out to you

Survival but it feels like it be thriving. The world needs more love

How long have you been waiting for that call?

Monkey brain is always worried about something bad happening

Across eight experiments, people doing small kindnesses underestimated how good it made the recipient feel. So send the text.

Kind of a tongue in cheek comment, but it cracks me up how my wife and I are the only ones who take any initiative to pick up the phone regularly or make the 13 hour drive to see everyone. We being the least able to take time off work and afford the trip. I can count on one hand how many visits we’ve had up here from close family members in the 15 years we’ve been up north. Yet most of them have their entire summers off every year and routinely drop $20k for a suite at a resort somewhere for several weeks. If they do fly to the nearest airport 3.5 hr away to visit, they can’t be bothered to rent a car. We end up doing two 7hr round trips to pick them up and drop them off at the airport, on our dime. Totally oblivious that we are in the grinder up here, barely eeking out an existence, working retarded hours and getting murdered by inflation. I still love them, but they are kinda clueless.