Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
so, I was sitting here watching the full compilation of all the East Idaho News clips from the 2023 Secret Santa - now, 1st off if you don't know what that is...
Years ago... back when I was taking care of my grandfather who had muscular dystrophy (was by his side for 11 years. RIP Grandpa, thanks for the life lessons and the memories <3 ) ... his end stage was brutal for him, and naturally that put me in a pretty depressed state. So, I started binging "giving to strangers/random acts of kindness" stuff on youtube to serve as my dose of anti-depressants
So, I come across this local news station called "East Idaho News" and for several years now someone who choses to remain anonymous with several 0's in their bank account..... they give a million dollars to EIN and tell them "ask around the community, not even on camera, just get out there and find out what good people in this community are struggling and we can make their life better. you have a million dollars to split between as many people as you can" and he did it year after year and as of this last christmas well we have a 2023 compilation so he hasnt stopped yet.
I just wanted to add context instead of being like "damn, i love this"
but, anyone that reads this far and has 8 minutes to kill - at least watch those first 8 minutes... the segment titled shelly" because that dude in the wheelchair next to her made me think of grandpa so dang much and it just made me think how much this would have meant to him.
But - yeah, I feel like I'm on the verge of this becoming a ramble. so...
the full video is 6 hours long. I don't expect much anyone to watch the entire thing in one sitting. But, at least check that first 8 minutes out. This right here is American imo so it fits here on this board. I just wanted my frens to know about this awesome thing that exists. Love yall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKZZ92JLf2c
tldr: a rich person dropping enough money to change 6 hours worth of lives without ever saying who they are is pretty neat. lol
id just like to add I have today off so an hour later and im still watching this lol