i don't think anyone can disagree that we need more kindness. we need it more than ever. and i believe the best way to be kinder is to first understand the impact kindness has had on us. so i've brought to life kinded, a place where i invite you to write and share a kind thing someone did to you. every note is anonymous and joins the others. through kinded i hope we can realize that kindness, just like us, doesn't belong to an algorithm. it is still ours to choose, and it is free.🌹https://kinded.thehiddeni.com/

one of the problems i have with the feed is that it is designed in a way that you never stay with anything. the consequence of having a lot of content fed all at once is that we forget most of it the second we see it. so we learned to let go of each thing to get to the next one, and after enough time of that i think we forget we even know how to hold onto something.so i brought to life a wall that runs the opposite way. it asks you for one thing, which is the answer to, if everything digital vanished tomorrow, what's the one thing you'd keep, and why?there are no names, no likes, nothing that rises to the top. it's anonymous the whole way through, so the only reason to leave something is that it meant something to you.i've already left mine there. come add yours!!🌹https://thethingsidsave.thehiddeni.com/

my sister has a cat, and a month ago or so it was poisoned. when i saw her i literally thought she was going to die. she had bad spasms, she already looked dead. i called a friend who's a vet, and he came to see her, treated her a little, and then told my sister to keep giving her milk. none of us believed she would recover. BUT BUT BUT after a couple of days she was doing well. i'd seen her look like she was already gone, and a few days later she was catching birds straight from the air. that to me was a miracle God made in my sister's life. she was treated, yeah, but coming back like that went so far beyond anything any of us expected. even the vet. it's incredible how good He is, if you're really really listening to Him.🌹

the news related to farcaster made me realize once again how fleeting and uncertain everything is, and how important it is for me that i’ve found something to ground myself in.many months ago, i’d have become stressed, because in the past few months i spent most of my time and energy on farcaster, doing my best to be a pawn that might move it forward (not sure how successful i was though lol). and as i am not a fan of any other “social” platforms, i would’ve become stressed because i didn’t know where i should fully focus my attention next.for example i was really stressed when everything changed on lens and i needed to find a new platform to focus most of my attention on. didn't leave lens obviously, but it's true that i spent less time on it than ever since then. (it used to be the only platform i was fully giving my time and energy back then and all the changes it went through hit me hard as i felt like i wasted my time - this is how it felt, but i don't regret it, not now at least.)i am still a bit lost and taken aback by the news, to be honest, but i’m more at peace now than i could’ve ever been, because i know that God is taking care of me, and everything is happening for my own good. He brought a peace in my heart that i don’t know how to put into words. it’s like the peace a father/mother gives to their children when they tell them that everything is going to be alright and you believe them, because they are your parents and they know it.so if anything ever disappears, i will be fine, because i know that through Him, everything is happening for my own good.🌹

a few months ago my life completely changed, and i decided to write this essay about it because i think my experience may help someone who finds themselves in the shoes i was in back then.🌹https://thehiddeni.substack.com/p/where-are-you-going-when-everything

some of the fears we have imo are the fear of not being successful, of losing what we have, of not even gaining what we want, or of something bad happening to us. i had those fears too, but God brought me peace in these matters. i mean, you could right now take everything i have, kick me out in the streets, do whatever you want to me, i can be unsuccessful BUT i know i will be just fine. i know nothing bad will actually happen to me, and that everything works for my good. it's an assurance i've never felt in my entire life. i simply never had it before. but now i do, and i care less and less about what happens to me. and even though i've always said that everything happens for us, not to us, the truth is i was wrong. things only happen for us when we're truly walking the right path which is God's path, the one He wants us on. off that path, they just happen to us.🌹

quitting an addiction is something any of us can do. but quitting means that at some point we may do it again, if we feel the need to, depending on the context. getting freed from that addiction means we'll never feel the need to do that specific thing again, regardless of the context. i can tell you this difference because the latter is what happened to me with smoking, and it only happened once i sought God's help. no one can get freed without Him. no one. without Him i'd still be smoking, because i've since found myself in contexts where i know i would have lit one. one of them is being on a small terrace with my friends, me being the only one not smoking. as someone who smoked before and "quit" it would've been hard, almost impossible, to hold myself. maybe i'd have won it once or twice but at some point i'd have submitted and lit a cigarette. so quitting is the fight that eventually gets lost, while when you are freed there is no need that comes from within anymore.🌹

do you remember the last kind thing someone did to you?🌹

kinded is my most recent experiment, where i invite you to write down on a note a kind thing someone did for you. through the accumulation of kind acts strangers did for other strangers, i hope we can make people realize the impact kindness has had on them, and on the ones around them. i've written more about why i decided to give life to kinded in this essay.🌹https://thehiddeni.substack.com/p/someone-got-kindd

my best friend told me that no matter how much he searches, he can't find a single person without a vice except me. if they're not smoking, they're drinking, if they're not drinking, they're gambling, and if they're doing none of those, there's always something else. it made me happy because i wanted to get there but i would never take credit for it because i don't deserve any of it. i was doing all of them and without God i wouldn't have got rid of any of them and this change in myself would've been completely inexistent.🌹