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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 752888" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Trying. I want to tell you how sorry I am that you are so sad. When we're sad everything about our lives feels intolerable, our jobs and relationships, and just everything. I want to encourage you to try to find little things that give you pleasure and peace. For me it's my animals. And I try to walk. Long walks.</p><p></p><p>And crazily, I like to go to Costco and drink a soda, half lemonade and half diet coke. Then I wander through the aisles. I know this sounds loony. But it helps me relax. It gives me pleasure that people know me there. I am not sure why.</p><p></p><p>Maybe it reminds me of the neighborhood where I grew up. It was the kind of neighborhood with small corner stores and a pharmacy and cleaners. Everybody knew me there. The barber, Paul, would watch for the streetcar for me to descend after school and he'd look out his window and wave. The deli man would cut me a piece of American Cheese. The wonderful couple from El Salvador that owned the cleaners would let me sit with them, and give me cookies. All in the block to my house. I was a latchkey kid. Nobody would be at home.</p><p></p><p>I never put it together that this is what makes me feel at home at Costco. Thanks for that. I would never have put it together except for your thread.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes in life what gets us through are moments. Kind moments. Not flashy ones. And we can find them, if we look.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 752888, member: 18958"] Trying. I want to tell you how sorry I am that you are so sad. When we're sad everything about our lives feels intolerable, our jobs and relationships, and just everything. I want to encourage you to try to find little things that give you pleasure and peace. For me it's my animals. And I try to walk. Long walks. And crazily, I like to go to Costco and drink a soda, half lemonade and half diet coke. Then I wander through the aisles. I know this sounds loony. But it helps me relax. It gives me pleasure that people know me there. I am not sure why. Maybe it reminds me of the neighborhood where I grew up. It was the kind of neighborhood with small corner stores and a pharmacy and cleaners. Everybody knew me there. The barber, Paul, would watch for the streetcar for me to descend after school and he'd look out his window and wave. The deli man would cut me a piece of American Cheese. The wonderful couple from El Salvador that owned the cleaners would let me sit with them, and give me cookies. All in the block to my house. I was a latchkey kid. Nobody would be at home. I never put it together that this is what makes me feel at home at Costco. Thanks for that. I would never have put it together except for your thread. Sometimes in life what gets us through are moments. Kind moments. Not flashy ones. And we can find them, if we look. [/QUOTE]
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