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whole·some meme hōl-səm\mēm
A meme that promotes health or well-being of body, mind, and/or soul.

A meme that is pure of heart, devoid of corruption or malice, modest, stable, virtuous, and all-around sweet and compassionate.

A meme that conveys support, positivity, compassion, understanding, love, affection, and genuine friendship by re-contextualizing classic meme formats, and using them to display warmth and empathy.

A meme with no snark or sarcasm that displays genuine human emotion and subverts a generally negative meme to be more positive.

Definition of a meme/memetics A way of describing cultural information being shared.

An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by non genetic means, especially imitation.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you do it right, they grow up and still want to help others.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago

Then they grow up and want to help others, but this time it's bad because socialism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I once took my now teen daughter to the park when she was around 3-4 years old. She was on the swings and another girl of similar age walked over and gets on the swing next to her. We had never met or seen this girl before.

They simultaneously look at each other and without any words started holding hands while they both slowly swayed back and forth on the swings. To this day I still think of this fondly and think adults could learn a lot from children in the open heart category.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

That is so sweet, thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Y'know, usually I get annoyed at adults when they try to randomly help me when I don't want or need help. Now, because of this, I am just going to act like they have as pure of an intent as a toddler and treat them accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

It's a good outlook to have. When you assume people have good intentions it makes a world of difference.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

If you want to reward me with chocolate buttons I'll gladly accept

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would also help your own stress levels, being annoyed at strangers is a pathway to long term stress and relieving that is very healthy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

My personal headcanon is that every person weaving in and out of traffic on the highway is desperate to get to the hospital before their child is born. It helps me keep calm.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

My littlest person knows I deal with chronic pain and sometimes on my bad days when I'm bemoaning my back, she'll come up and start rubbing my back in a very serious and professional way. It does absolutely nothing perceptible physically but it lights up my day so I always make sure to thank her for the excellent massage. She always replies in an equally professional way that I'm welcome. 🥰

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Yesterday my 4yo asked me to fold his sweatshirt for him when he was changing in the kindergarten. I said I would help him but I don't know how. He smiled and explained it to me, perfectly folding it in the process.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is why lemmy is great, IDK why but Reddit just seems to hate children

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It's very much a problem here too.

I think it's a combo of things. Lots of ppl had bad upbringings and don't realize it didn't have to be that way or have been around kids raised by poor parenting and think bad behaviour is the default, many people can't afford kids or even a stable place for them to live today, and the rest think the world is the worst it's ever been because they've never read a history book and so can't imagine bringing a kid into that.

I've got a toddler. It's great. It's hard work but for every minute I put in I get so much back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like an American thing to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Nah I'm European and hate kids.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Thank you for lighting up the world a little

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

30 years later she'll still cringe remembering that time she lectured an adult about elevator buttons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Of course not. Who’s ashamed of things they did as a toddler?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I don't mean this as an accusation or an insult or anything. From personal experience, therapy helps with what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No offense taken, but I think it's good to feel bad about dumb stuff I did.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

BUT HUMAN NATURE SAYS EVERYONE IS JUSTIFIED IN BEING A SELFISH MURDERFUCKING ASSHOLE AT ALL TIMES wojak-nooo

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Go back to Hexbear with your oversized memes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Dude can you just not... I know positivity is making you feel awkward, but please learn to direct that in other ways.