Story time, ListNerds and words on staying Positive.

in #alive2 years ago

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I am going to start with my friend @generikat. I have made a lot of great fantastic friends on Hive and not to insult anyone else she and here writing had made it to the top of the list for me. Her post yesterday: April Foolishness is one of the most moving pieces of writing I have seen on Hive in a long time. With a really bad situation, taking the time to blog about it and her inner strength showing through. I was blown away, still blown away.

In a comment to it yesterday I promised to share a story about when I got caught for driving and driving. It was in my early twenties and how grateful I am that I got caught when I did.

I was in the Canadian Armed Forces at the time. Yes for those who don't know I am military veteran. Not a war veteran. Let's get that out of the way. War veterans deserve a lot more praise that people that just serve.

I was not in the military long when I got caught driving and driving. But I was living off base. And I will admit at a young age I would have a few drinks and drive. And as most people who do that I believed have two or three or four drinks and driving was okay. That was the spoken standard back in the early 90's. One drink an hour or 4 drinks in total and you are safe to drive. We know better this day and age.

Well one night at the bar on base, or may have be an day. Me and my friends had a fantastic time. My friends new I liked to sneak off when I had a few to many. In this case, way to many. So they took my car keys. Me being, what I thought, slick keep a spare set.

I was loaded, and I mean loaded drunk. I did have sense enough to know I was way over the ability to drive. In my drunken stupper I decided I needed to go home. But something told me not to leave base driving in the state I was in. But I was out of money and could not get a cab home till I got some money. The bank machine was a 2 minute drive away.

I drove! Thankfully I never hurt anyone or myself. I got to the bank machine, got 20 bucks out, there was a pay phone there, I called a cab and walked outside the bank to have a smoke.

That was it. The military police where there and slapped the handcuffs on me and hauled me to a cell on the base, they called the Ottawa city police to come and get me and I had a breath sample taken.

I was three times the legal limit.

I remember the MP telling me a hit every snow bank between the bar and the bank with the car.

How thankful I am to have gotten caught. I don't even want to think about what would have happened if I decided to drive off base that night into a busy Ottawa city. I may not be here, worse yet I may have runed other peoples lives.

End of Story!

@generikat I also promised you a picture of a Lemon Tower Cake.

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It is lemon cake, cut in two, with lemon pie filling in the center and on top with lemon icing all over it!

I also want to highlight a post by @lisamgentile1961 as she plugs away each week with your Hive goals: Hit My 1st LiSTNERDS Goal and Continue to Stack!
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What am I grateful for today:

  1. My wife
  2. My family
  3. Hive
  4. ListNerds
  5. To be safe and sound

Goals for today

  1. Get a ListNerds referral.
  2. Encourage my current ListNerds referrals to upgrade or stay upgraded.
  3. Get a hair cut
  4. Spend time with my Grand-Daughters

Let me jump into ListNerds update now.

What most people would consider a negative day I consider a super positive day on ListNerds. Let me share a bunch of screen shots and tell you all about it.

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I received to Verified emails earnings today, they would have been for the 26th March. I will repeat that it does not really matter to me. I earn enough from my stake now to pay for my Enterprise upgrade many times over in the run of a month.

Let me talk about down votes. Look at my post from 2 Apr. 15 upvotes and 5 down votes. 5. FIVE. How super awesome positive is that. Why is that positive? Because people are taking notice of me. People are taking the time to vote on my emails. I am not being ignored. It is an opportunity for me to figure out how to turn those down arrows into up arrows.

Here is an example of what ListNerds has done for me on Hive.

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91 upvotes, 91! 26 comments! 26!

Before ListNerds, before my positive attitude I was not even close to this.
Sure I would like all upvotes on my ListNerds emails but it is just telling me I got more work to do.

Because of only staked earnings today I fell in the richlist.

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Not by much. I am less that 2 nerds behind @jongolson. Looks like @maddogmike had a great 24 hours. The race in on, it helps keep me pumped :)

Reputation scores on ListNerds. Fracking fantastic thing they started.

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I am in seventh with Rep. Absolutely fracking positivity awesome sauce.

I think I got everything (not really) off my mind for this blog post.

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Have a super positive day everyone.

Bradley
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Oh Bradley, you started out this post with a bang, like seriously, thank you so much. Meeting you on here has been one of the biggest blessings ever and I am so grateful to have done so, your positivity brings me joy every, single, day!

And of course you deserve praise, you chose to serve. Anyone who does, war time or not, deserves praise in my book, and I can say that because I am married to a 100% service connected disabled war veteran! You all are awesome!

But perhaps the most impressive trait of yours so far, at least to me, is your authenticity and humility. To be so honest with your fail, you are such an amazing person. Most people try to pretend to be what they are not, I have spent my whole life wrapping myself around people like a chameleon so that they feel comfortable, but you, you are yourself and you own it, mistakes and all. That's courage and that's awesome!

And speaking of awesome, HOLY TARTASTIC! That cake....I need a piece. I am going to have cake now. LOL! Well, I am going to go bake muffins for tomorrow's post, but I really want cake! AHHH!

And @lisamgentile1961 is a cool lady!!!

And now I am going to shut up.

!PIZZA

Thanks for the high praise. It truly makes me blush. Offline I have always been this way. Behind a computer it is easy to be someone else. But since I found my positive side, what you see or read is what you get. And I am 100 percent mentally better because of it 😀

When are you going to try and duplicate that cake? Hehe.

Have a awesome day.

!BBH

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I think in developing countries, the value of those two verified emails is already equivalent to a one-month salary for many. 😂

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No doubt.

!BBH

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Great to hear you got caught Bradley, and also that you continue with Listnerds, stay !ALIVE

Thanks my friend 😀

!BBH

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It's part of life and that's how we learn. Keep spreading positivity, that's how to overwhelm negativity. Just a little glimpse of negativity on Listnerds. This kind of attitude would discourage people from even bothering about, it anymore. Isn't Listnerds about building a list? We learned something different from the CTP training. I was planning to invest here on Listnerds, but no more interested in looking at these " Gang Rules".

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You need to forget the down votes. Read my post from today for a pick me up 😀

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Awesome post, Bradley. I know that we are not too far apart in age and I had a few of those types of drives home where I really did not remember driving home. (Both of those were due to tequila) and a number of drives which are now known as "Buzzed driving".
Not to mention that the legal limit was 1.0 where it is now 0.2. I am always thankful that my actions never harmed anyone. we used to have a saying when I worked in the ER, It is better to be lucky than smart!

Glad to hear and thanks for sharing 👍

!BBH

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I have done some stupid things as well when I was younger so I wouldn't beat yourself over for it too much. Just learn from it and move on. I have never gone driving when I was fully drunk but there were a few times where I had a few drinks before doing so. Luckily, I never got into any accidents either.

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Yes, hopefully we get wiser as we get older

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We all did foolish things in our youth. Thank goodness neither you nor anyone else was hurt. Thank you for sharing. We all forgive you. LOL

Thanks. Lol.

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