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Sunshine Today, London (2025)

05/09/2025

💔💡 “I was fired from the very company I founded… and it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.”

I wasn’t born into privilege. In fact, I was given up for adoption. My biological parents were two young students who couldn’t raise me. My adoptive parents gave me love, but deep inside I carried a sense of rejection. I dropped out of college, crashed on friends’ couches, ate what I could, and lived without a clear plan. Still, something in me whispered: keep going. 🍎🛏️

Then I met Steve Wozniak. From a small garage, we built something people didn’t quite understand: a personal computer. Apple was born. Everything was skyrocketing—until I was forced out of my own company. Investors voted me out. I walked away with nothing but a broken heart. 😞🚪

That fall was crushing. But in the silence that followed, I reconnected with my true passion: creating. I started NeXT, then Pixar. And while Apple stumbled, I built what eventually saved it. Years later, Apple acquired NeXT and I returned—not as the same person, but with more wisdom, less ego, and an even greater hunger to change the world. 📱🎬

👉 Life isn’t about never falling. It’s about knowing how to use the fall to reinvent yourself. 🔁🧠

—Steve Jobs
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29/08/2025

✨ “If you can begin your day without caffeine, stay cheerful despite aches and pains, avoid burdening others with complaints, eat the same food every day and still be grateful for it…

If you can understand your loved one when they have no time for you, ignore their sharp words when things go wrong and it’s not your fault, accept criticism calmly, treat a poor friend the same as a wealthy one…

If you can live without lies, handle stress without medication, relax without alcohol, fall asleep without pills, and truly say you hold no prejudice against skin color, faith, orientation, or politics…

Then you have reached the level of your dog.” 🐾

— Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
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18/08/2025

When Children Turn Away

It hurts when your grown children no longer want to connect.
For the past ten years, mine have barely called—only a quick phone call on my birthday.

At first, I was devastated. I replayed every conversation, blamed myself, and let the silence consume me. But after reading Freud, reflecting deeply, and facing some hard truths, I finally began to live differently.

🌿 Time for Myself

Someone once said: “Children are like a house you’ll never live in: you build it for years, it costs you nerves and money… and in the end, they leave.”

And they should.
I don’t regret a single moment spent raising my kids. But waiting, expecting, and clinging drained me like a drought waiting for rain.

One morning, I woke up and realized: nobody cared how I spent the day. Nobody asked. That emptiness felt like sinking in deep water. But instead of drowning, I went back to something I had abandoned years ago—my workshop. I spent hours building airplane wings for a model. Time disappeared. And that’s when it hit me: I still have myself, and my time is mine.

🌊 Children Must Leave

In nature, grown offspring always leave. If they don’t, growth stops. Parents and children live by different rhythms:

Children say: “Let us discover life on our own.”

Parents reply: “We already know—let us teach you.”

But if parents win, children never truly grow up. Love means letting them go, even if it hurts.

🌸 Learning to Live Alone

Living with yourself is the hardest lesson. At first, the silence is unbearable—you crave calls, visits, distractions. But Freud was right: the one who finds meaning only in others is destined for misery. The one who finds peace within himself is truly free.

I was terrified of aging alone. But when I discovered joy in solitude—when I could fill my own time with passion—the fear vanished.

A loner isn’t someone without friends. A loner is someone who cannot stand being with himself.

I no longer fear being alone.
I have my time, my passions, my peace. And when the phone does ring, I can answer with love—without expectation.

✍️ Frank Meinitz

14/08/2025

In 1958, a pregnant woman was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis. Doctors warned her that the surgery could seriously harm her unborn child and advised an abortion. She refused without hesitation.

Her baby was born with glaucoma, able to see only blurred shapes and colors with his right eye. Still, he grew up happily on his parents’ farm, where they made tools and sold wine. By age 7, he had already learned to play the flute, trumpet, saxophone, guitar, trombone, and drums. His mother often said that only classical music could soothe his restless spirit.

When he was 12, tragedy struck again. While playing as a goalkeeper in a soccer match, the ball hit him hard in the face. He suffered a brain hemorrhage in his right eye, and despite desperate medical efforts — even using leeches — he lost his remaining sight completely.

Many told this blind boy to be careful, to limit himself. But he refused to live in fear. He even competed in horseback riding events.

He studied law, but fate had other plans. His true path was music — and he would walk onto the boulevard of fame as a world-renowned tenor and songwriter.

This is the story of the great Andrea Bocelli — a man who turned adversity into art, pain into beauty, and limitations into limitless music. 🎶✨
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13/08/2025

Steve Jobs’ final words — from a billionaire who left this world at just 56:
“I reached the very top of success in the business world. In the eyes of others, my life was a triumph.
But beyond work, there was very little true joy.
Now, lying in a hospital bed and looking back, I realize that all the recognition and wealth I was so proud of fade and lose their meaning in the face of death.
You can hire someone to drive you, manage your books, cook your meals… but you can’t hire someone to carry your illness or face death for you.
You can replace a lost object.
But there’s one thing you can never get back once it’s gone — life itself.
No matter where you are in your journey, sooner or later, the curtain will fall.
Love your family, your spouse, your kids, your friends. Care for them. Treasure them.

As we get older, we begin to understand:
A $30 watch and a $300 watch tell the same time.
A $30,000 car and a $150,000 car drive the same roads and reach the same destination.
A $1,000 bottle of wine and a $10 bottle can give you the same headache.
A home that’s 1,000 square feet or 10,000 won’t shield you from loneliness.
And a first-class seat on a plane won’t save you if the plane goes down with everyone else.

Real happiness is having someone to laugh with, talk to, hug, sit in silence with, reminisce with, or simply just be with.

The most important lesson: don’t raise your kids to be rich — raise them to be happy.
When they grow up, they should know the value of things, not just their price.

Life is beautiful.”
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12/08/2025

😲👇
"When I first started in movies, everything came from one simple idea and a lot of drive.

Take Billy Madison, for example — it all started with the question: ‘What if a grown man had to go back to elementary school?’ It was the perfect setup for silliness, for poking fun at kids, and somehow… ending up bonding with them.

With my best friend — the guy I’ve co-written almost everything with — we took those little “what if” ideas (like with Happy Gilmore or The Wedding Singer) and turned them into full stories. We never cared much about what critics would say — and good thing, because they almost never liked our movies. Our real goal was simple: imagine people laughing in their living rooms, or college students cracking up together on a Friday night.

What’s funny is, looking back, I realize how much it all rested on pure faith in myself… and a lot of naïve optimism. I’d call my friends and say, ‘I crushed it tonight!’ even if the set had gone horribly. I’d make up compliments in my head and convince myself that if the audience didn’t laugh, it was because they “didn’t get” how good it really was.

That little bubble of self-delusion kept me going. It protected me while I was still figuring things out — even though I was terrified every single time I stepped on stage. And over time, that almost blind faith turned into something real: actual skill, built one shaky performance at a time.

💬🧠 Adam Sandler on how his movies were born from simple ideas, late nights with friends, and an almost irrational belief in himself — even when critics tore him apart and he was still learning how to make people laugh."
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12/08/2025

“My entire life can be summed up in one sentence: nothing went as I had planned — and that’s okay.” – Keanu Reeves

Life doesn’t follow a perfect script. There will always be unexpected turns, losses, and surprises.

But in every detour, there’s something worth keeping — growth, love, lessons learned. Accepting the unexpected isn’t just part of the journey… it’s what truly keeps us moving forward.
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12/08/2025

🍩 When love and community are sweeter than any donut

In Seal Beach, California, John Chhan and his wife Stella had been serving donuts at their shop, Donut City, for over 30 years.
But in 2018, life took a turn — Stella suffered a brain aneurysm, fell into a coma, and began a long road to rehabilitation.

John refused to accept donations. But his loyal customers found another way to help: they started buying out every donut early in the morning, so he could close the shop and spend more time with his wife.

Within less than an hour, the trays were empty.
Some gave the donuts to neighbors, firefighters, or people experiencing homelessness.
Because for them, it wasn’t about the donuts — it was about giving John the most precious gift he could have: time with the love of his life. ❤️
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12/08/2025

Did you know that Elon Musk — now one of the richest men in the world — spent much of his childhood alone, buried in science fiction books and dreaming about space… while being bullied at school?

Born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971, he was programming his first computer by age nine. But in the schoolyard, he wasn’t the popular kid — he endured beatings and constant mockery. That loneliness drove him into the world of imagination, reading up to ten hours a day.

At 17, he made a life-changing choice: to leave his home country with nothing but a suitcase and a few dollars, chasing a future in North America. He washed dishes, cleaned boilers, and slept on borrowed couches — but never stopped learning or thinking big.

In the ’90s, with his brother, he founded Zip2, an online city guide that sold for over $300 million. Then came X.com, which evolved into PayPal, revolutionizing online payments. And when most would retire comfortably, he bet everything on three risky industries: electric cars (Tesla), solar energy (SolarCity), and reusable rockets (SpaceX).

By 2008, Tesla was on the brink of bankruptcy, SpaceX had failed three launches in a row, and his marriage was falling apart. Musk called it “the most painful year” of his life. Yet he risked his last dollar to fund a fourth launch. This time, Falcon 1 reached orbit — and days later, NASA awarded him a multi-million-dollar contract.

Today, Tesla leads the shift to electric mobility, and SpaceX is planning human missions to Mars. Musk went from a lonely boy staring at the stars to the man building the road to reach them.

Moral: No matter how many times you fall, if your dreams are bigger than your fears, you can change the world. 🌍✨
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12/08/2025

📸 Arthur Conan Doyle and family, April 1922

Along with the photo comes a wonderfully witty story about the famous author — the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Once, Arthur Conan Doyle, a trained physician, arrived in Paris. At the station, a taxi driver confidently walked up to him, grabbed his suitcase without a word, placed it in the trunk, and only after getting behind the wheel asked:
— “So, where to, Mr. Conan Doyle?”
Surprised, Doyle asked, “How do you know me?”
— “Never met you before,” replied the driver.
— “Then how did you recognize me?”
— “I used the very deductive method you describe in your books,” the driver said proudly. “First, I read in the papers that Arthur Conan Doyle had been vacationing on the French Riviera for the past two weeks. Second, I noted that the train you arrived on came from Marseille. Then I saw your suntan — one you could only get after at least ten days on the Mediterranean coast. I also noticed an ink stain on your right middle finger — a sign you’re a writer. Your bearing told me you’re a doctor, and your suit is clearly tailored in London. Adding all that together, I concluded: here he is, the celebrated creator of Sherlock Holmes!”

Doyle, impressed, exclaimed:
— “You’re practically Sherlock Holmes yourself to make such deductions from small details!”
— “Well, yes,” the driver hesitated, “but there was one more little clue…”
— “And what was that?”
— “The luggage tag on your suitcase — it had your name and surname written on it.” 😄
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12/08/2025

Keanu Reeves once said:
“My whole life can be summed up in one sentence: Nothing went as I planned… and that’s okay.”

Life doesn’t follow a perfect script. There will always be twists, losses, and unexpected turns.

But in each of them, there’s something priceless — growth, love, lessons learned. Accepting the unexpected isn’t just part of the journey… it’s what keeps us moving forward.
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11/08/2025

🚖💛 A New York taxi driver pulled up to his last fare of the night and honked.
No answer.
He honked again.
Still nothing.

Tempted to drive off, he instead parked, walked to the door, and knocked.
“One minute,” came a frail elderly voice.

He heard slow, shuffling footsteps. The door opened to reveal a tiny woman in her 90s, dressed in a floral dress and a little hat with a veil, like someone straight out of the 1940s. Beside her was a small nylon suitcase. Inside, her apartment looked frozen in time — furniture draped in sheets, no clocks, no dishes, only a box of old photographs and glassware in the corner.

“Would you carry my bag to the car?” she asked politely.
Arm in arm, they walked slowly to the cab. She thanked him over and over.
“It’s nothing,” he replied. “I just try to treat my passengers the way I’d want someone to treat my own mother.”

Once in the taxi, she gave him an address… then hesitated.
“Would you drive me through downtown?”
“It’s not the shortest way,” he said.
“Oh, I don’t mind. I’m on my way to a nursing home,” she answered softly.

He glanced in the mirror. Her eyes glistened.
“I have no family left. The doctor says I don’t have much time.”

The driver quietly reached over and switched off the meter.
“What route would you like?”

For the next two hours, they wandered through the city.
She showed him the building where she once worked as an elevator operator.
The neighborhood where she and her husband lived as newlyweds.
The old dance hall where she had twirled across the floor as a little girl.

Sometimes she asked him to slow down, gazing silently at a street corner or building lost in memories.

When the first rays of dawn broke, she said, “I’m tired. Let’s go.”

They arrived at a small care home. Two orderlies were waiting. He carried her bag inside; she was already in a wheelchair.

“How much do I owe you?” she asked, reaching for her purse.
“Nothing,” he said.
“You have to make a living,” she protested.
“There are other passengers,” he replied.

Without thinking, he bent down and hugged her. She held on tightly.
“You’ve given an old woman a small moment of joy,” she whispered.

He walked away into the pale morning light. Behind him, a door closed — the quiet sound of a life’s final chapter.

He didn’t pick up another fare. Just drove, lost in thought.

What if she’d gotten an impatient driver? What if he’d just honked once and left?
He realized nothing he’d ever done felt more important than that night.

We often think life is made of grand events.
But the truly great moments often come quietly — disguised as something small, and wrapped in kindness.
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