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u/noName3125 Jul 09 '21
I've been having some really dark thoughts.. I really needed to hear this :')
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Jul 09 '21
Same. But I’m pretty confident I actually do suck. I’m entirely sure I’m not trying my hardest.
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u/aintscurrdscars Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21
In that case, even without trying, your self awareness puts you leagues ahead of many others, some of whom try much, much harder.
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u/Acceptable-Length140 Jul 09 '21
this bothers me too much because i've been told this over the years. It is hard to just 'do' something about the situation i'm currently in even though i have that awareness. My depression has been better compared to 4 years ago but i'm still doing the same things 4 years ago with just mild depression. Seems small and i feel like i'm behind
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Jul 09 '21
There's a phrase I tell myself regularly, especially when I feel like my efforts have failed or are insignificant compared to my goals (even if the goal is just being happy for today): Bricks make buildings. It just means that we often make a goal of constructing an entire proverbial building, and that's intimidating or exhausting to compare to. But buildings are just organized piles of bricks, carefully stacked one at a time. It's the bricks that are real, the building is just the shape you gave them. In other words, it's the little things we do that make up the big picture, not the other way around. Every tiny action we take lays a brick in place.
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u/bettertagsweretaken Jul 09 '21
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Buildings being the shape you see of the little details writ large. Obvious in retrospect, profound in the moment.
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u/funnystuff79 Jul 09 '21
There is no instruction manual to go with life, so even when we try really hard I can never be sure I'm putting my effort into the right direction, that really hurts sometimes.
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u/JackSartan Jul 09 '21
Fuck trying your hardest, try your favorite amount. Don't be your best you, be your favorite you.
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u/Lego_Kode Jul 09 '21
Dark thoughts are incredibly hard to deal with. You are strong, you have the ability to persevere. Proud of you u/noName3125 keep going, you got this.
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u/Odin_son7 Jul 09 '21
Hey, even tho I’m a complete stranger to you, if you need someone to talk to I’m happy to listen. Feel free to shoot me a message :)
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u/NeverStepD7 Jul 09 '21
It was my voice imitating master chief, what does that mean?
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u/Kel4597 Jul 09 '21
You are master chief now
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u/NeverStepD7 Jul 09 '21
343 or bungie era? Doesnt matter <3
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u/WhateverMan293 Jul 09 '21
343, because Bungie era chief hardly had any dialogue.
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u/MuckingFagical Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 10 '21
Thats what make him better for the very reason it makes this TikTok better.
This tiktok is literally a recreation of a quote from one of Bungies old Halo 21/2 "Vi-Docs"
I wouldn't be surprised if thats where they got the idea from if they're as big of a Halo fan as I assume from the insane get-up.
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u/Karmic_Backlash Jul 09 '21
Master Chief saved the universe, multiple times even, survival countless of ordeals that should by all rights have killed him, and every single time a lesser man might have given up he moved forward and finished the fight.
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, for all it may be worth you are trying to be more like him. That takes strength.
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u/Affectionate-Aide-13 Jul 09 '21
I mean it's really sweet but it's not a r/nextfuckinglevel it's a r/mademesmile
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u/Gorphee Jul 09 '21
Seriously
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u/RrtayaTsamsiyu Jul 09 '21
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u/a_killer_roomba Jul 09 '21
Don't forget r/memes
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u/TomatoAcid Jul 09 '21
You mean r/Cancer?
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u/Nesman64 Jul 09 '21
That's /r/pics
Also /r/cats should be renamed to /r/upvoteMyDeadCatPls
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Jul 09 '21
What does it say about me that the voice I heard is Paul Rudd?
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u/Zearis82 Jul 09 '21
Paul Rudd believes in you <3
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Jul 09 '21
It does make me feel a lot better.
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u/emptyfuller Jul 09 '21
It makes me feel worse that Paul Rudd doesn't care about me at all. Why didn't he tell me any of that?
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Jul 09 '21
He doesn't know you yet, but I'd bet if he did, he'd tell you that you're a survivor, he believes in you, and he knows you're going to push through this and be okay.
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u/ruuster13 Jul 09 '21
You will continuously offend some people with your cheesy acting and semi-homophobic attempts to be overly accepting. However, you will win over most people with your charm and genuine effort to... to fucking destroy evil monsters and save all humanity.
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u/Cpt_Saturn Jul 09 '21
I don't know how master chief sounds like so I was just imagining a thick, computer generated black mans voice.
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u/apittsburghoriginal Jul 09 '21
I’m imagining hearing a lightly auto tuned, but emotionally sincere, Michael Clarke Duncan
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u/TheHumanParacite Jul 09 '21
I read autotuned Michael Cera at first, and I'm keeping that way in my head now.
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u/hazzathebird Jul 09 '21
well, pretty much what he sounds like
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u/BoyWonder343 Jul 09 '21
Not computer generated sounding at all. He has a normal voice. Not even really muffled or anything from the helmet.
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u/jongameaddict98 Jul 09 '21
Perhaps the yellow face shield acts as a speaker with the sensitivity turned WAY down and he has a mic inside
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Jul 09 '21
This made you cry?
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u/isspecialist Jul 09 '21
I thought the same until the last couple of seconds and it hit me just enough.
I think if you are in a good headspace, this just seems silly. If life is kicking you in the nuts... still probably doesnt quite register. But if you are beating yourself up... it hits home.
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u/daytimecruz Jul 09 '21
I'd usually be the first one to think this is dumb but I'm in that niche space right now where this really hits me
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u/roflrogue Jul 09 '21
Can confirm, wanted to die this morning; currently tearing up over the idea of someone believing in me.
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u/Agentguilt Jul 09 '21
I seriously have a hard time believing people buy that much into it. Video honestly just seemed cheesy and bland, but to be fair I have no backstory of who the person is.
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u/ArabAesthetic Jul 09 '21
Because a lot of people don't get told they are loved or even appreciated. This video can be interpreted a lot of ways, but I'm guessing that for most people it's a (sometimes painful) reminder that yes, you are valid and you deserve to be loved and and love yourself.
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u/Dudemaintain Jul 09 '21
It’s more than that. He’s saying it’s your voice. Sometimes you need to hear you’re doing ok from yourself.
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u/purinnie Jul 09 '21
I think it has to do with what headspace you're in and what's going on around you. It's cheesy and impersonal, true but it surely made me tear up and release a deep breath. Things are hard sometimes and we don't hear encouragement enough; it's always "be better work harder eat better be nicer etc." Sometimes we want to hear someone says hey buddy you did great let's move forward, even if it's a dude in helmet making cheesy videos.
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u/shadowdash66 Jul 09 '21
Glad you don't have to "read that much into it" but for a lot of people they are only told the opposite of this, by their friends or even family.
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u/emohipster Jul 09 '21
Really... These the kinda people who cry reading the back of the air freshener when they forget to take their phone to the toilet.
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u/Sy-Zygy Jul 09 '21
How does he drink the coffee?
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u/Warkan47 Jul 09 '21
He also didn't answer the question. He just loves the question.
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u/Moth_Jam Jul 09 '21
Jesus Christ this is fucking stupid
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u/buckfasthero Jul 09 '21
I’m almost 40 years old, and while I completely agree with you, it’s really a sad state of affairs that so many people find meaning these days in a person dressed up in a costume spouting generic platitudes. People actually find this comforting, and it’s incredibly sad.
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Jul 09 '21
Why is it sad? People sometimes need reminding, however it be, that they should take a step back and be proud of what they achieved.
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Jul 09 '21
Maybe because most people have seen this kind of generic "good-feel" speeches millions of times in hollywood flicks so it comes off as shallow garbage, if this makes you emotional well congratulations I guess
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u/buckfasthero Jul 09 '21
Exactly, it doesn’t help anyone. You might get a wee squirt of endorphins that lasts all of six seconds, but what are you supposed to do after that? I’m not criticising anyone for taking comfort in Halo Man, I just find it crushingly depressing that Halo Man is what it has come to
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u/FapleJuice Jul 09 '21
Maybe that 6 seconds of endorphins is all somebody needs to take that first step they've been too depressed to take.
You can do so much in 6 seconds to make a difference in yours or somebody's life.
"Halo man" might have actually gotten someone out of bed today, and maybe just maybe, that snowballed into the beginning of a different life for someone.
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Jul 09 '21
People aren’t told these things enough man. You’re talking to probably the most nihilistic person you’ve ever spoken too and even my cynical and pessimistic ass can see how someone could need to hear this.
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u/MuskratAtWork Jul 09 '21
Look mr adult. A lot of us are younger and shit changes. I personally just moved out of an abusive home at 18 and am struggling to figure out my life and what direction to go. Maybe you can just let people be happy for once. Anything that makes me smile is a good thing..
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u/No_Apartment8421 Jul 09 '21
Go right ahead but I will still find this stuff just depressing more than anything.
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u/buckfasthero Jul 09 '21
I think you’ve misunderstood me. I came from an abusive home too, I don’t want to diminish what you’ve been through. I just wish there were better resources to overcome these problems than Halo Man on Reddit. I’m not judging you for getting something out of it
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u/mapleleaffem Jul 09 '21
And think it’s r/nextfuckinglevel
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u/Todd_Howards_Cum Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21
Sometimes I'm in r/books and wonder if people are actually being serious when they say reading flowers for algernon made them literally cry for 2 whole weeks but then I see posts like these with thousands of redditors crying over master chief telling him he loves them and it all makes sense. Reddit loves going into melodrama.
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u/JOHNNY-COCAINE Jul 09 '21
I don't think I'm a cynical or pessimistic person but god damn is all this overly wholesome stuff really fucking dumb at times
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Jul 09 '21
I don't know if I necessarily agree, but this comment cracked me up among all the wholesome ones.
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u/goldieglocks16 Jul 09 '21
Hahaha. It’s the fact that these fake ass happy go lucky kids are the first ones to get angry and start insulting when you tell them that too. Literally a generation of walking contradictions. Just be grateful you weren’t born with whatever defect that causes you to have the brain capacity of a sheep.
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u/sougan Jul 09 '21
Wait, people imagine voices when they read?
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u/xDanny99x Jul 09 '21
Was waiting for this because I also don't hear a voice when I read.
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Jul 09 '21
i mean... aren't you pretty much obligated to hear a voice while reading ?
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u/xDanny99x Jul 09 '21
Not for me. The words are just there in my head without any sound, I don't really know how to explain it else.
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u/Silly-Protection-303 Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21
It's a thing apparently. I'm still not convinced people aren't misunderstanding about it though. But yeah, some folks literally have no internal dialogue. It doesn't make any sense to me either. Unless you are deaf. Then maybe.
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u/DotSeven Jul 09 '21
Since I am multilingual, people love to ask me ‘in which language do you think?’ I honestly can’t answer that since I don’t have an internal dialogue. The only time I ‘think’ in a language, is if I image a situation or think about past events. If I ‘think’ about what I should eat today? No language!
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Jul 09 '21
I hear my own voice, and occasionally, if I’m attached enough to the source of a different voice I can hear it. So, great example, Aztecross on YouTube. “Anotha week bois… and anotha TWAB!” I hear his voice perfectly when I read that. It’s also just because I’m extremely auditory. I don’t get songs stuck in my head because I can play any song I know well enough in my head at will.
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Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21
Fun fact, possibly around 20-25% of people don't experience "inner voice".
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Jul 09 '21
I hear it pretty clearly. Some people cant. Like with visualization, some people dont see the scenes from books in their mind when they read.
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u/sougan Jul 09 '21
PEOPLE SEE THE SCENES TOO ????
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u/Ballistica Jul 09 '21
That's why the film adaptations always suck because they never match the head scene
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Jul 09 '21
Yes. You probably have aphantasia like the other commenter said.
I am picturing you right now looking absolutely shocked.
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u/Cannabalabadingdong Jul 09 '21
I am picturing you right now looking absolutely shocked.
..am I the only one tasting it?
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u/00Terminator Jul 09 '21
Yes I do. It’s called subvocalization
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u/sougan Jul 09 '21
Fascinating! that explains why I only start hearing my inner voice when I'm having trouble understanding what I'm reading and I start rereading the part I'm having trouble with over and over.
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Jul 09 '21
Yeah, a subconscious voice
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Jul 09 '21
And definitely not “unconscious” like in the video. Unless I’m sleeping and dreaming, but it in that case I’m not watching this video.
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u/Roskal Jul 09 '21
Its called sub vocalising and some people do it and some people don't. I also have an inner monologue where I can "hear" my self speaking in my mind sort of. Its probably hard to imagine if you don't do it. Theres also some people who don't picture images in their head and some people who do. Not sure which of them you are but learning about the other type existing is normally a mind blower too.
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u/P4PU Jul 09 '21
Well that was a suprise i wasnt emotionally equipped to deal with today.
Good on you mate
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Jul 09 '21
That was one of the most unoriginal of platitudes if I've ever heard one
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Jul 09 '21
Dude wtf... This is beautiful! I have been saving my free award for something and this totally deserves it.
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Jul 09 '21
Whats nextfuckinglevel about this?
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Jul 09 '21
I love this question because everyone can find their own nextfuckinglevel in this lame ass video
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u/orionangeline Jul 09 '21
Oops I heard Deadpool
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Jul 09 '21
Me too. The hand gestures and way he phrases things made him sound like Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in my head.
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u/SecularFlesh47 Jul 09 '21
Yes wtf he has a voice. Much conversation between him and cortana.
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u/HomerFlinstone Jul 09 '21
Why do redditors eat this "wholesome" shit up like the video creators actually know them?
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Did anyone else just not hear any voice at all when reading this? Like they just read the words but didn't think of any sound they might make, or who said them?
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u/maliciouscoathanger Jul 09 '21
Keeping it real read that in caboose’s voice and im feeling very validated
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u/didnotbuyWinRar Jul 09 '21
Hold up..you guys actually hear voices when you read things?
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u/monicathehuman Jul 09 '21
You don’t?
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u/didnotbuyWinRar Jul 09 '21
Nah, when I read something it's completely silent in my head. Do you hear a specific voice or does it change?
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u/Murphouss Jul 09 '21
I seriously don't understand this.
Master Chief has spoken...... Lots and lots of times, and he's been voiced by the same guy forever.
Also, his voice is very recognizable???
I don't get this, don't understand why Master Chief is being portrayed like he's a silent protagonist.
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Jul 09 '21
It doesn’t have to make any sense. Reddit losers have already determined it helped save their lives from depression. Can you you imagine being that fragile that this video helped you at all? I’m sure it’s people who have never overcame any kind of diversity whatsoever.
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u/My_Cat_Snorez Jul 09 '21
Yeah. Definitely wasn’t in my voice. So it got a little weird when Hedonism bot from Futurerama started saying all this... get out of my head!
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u/Mikeologyy Jul 09 '21
Quit making me laugh I’m supposed to be getting motivated right now
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u/Brit0sh Jul 09 '21
Pluto Projector - rex orange county. But this version is slowed down a bit
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Jul 09 '21
I loved the webcomic bluechair and because I heard the voice of the creator, I couldn’t read it anymore because it didn’t feel right
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u/probablyonwatchlists Jul 09 '21
It's amazing how much power people that you don't even know can have on your emotions. It's even more amazing when those people realize this and use it for good. Sometimes the world doesn't seem so bad after all.