You know, it's amazing how now matter how bad things seem, there is always a glimmer of light that gives hope. I tend to look at todays society and see more of the things I dislike than of those I wish was more common. Kindness can sometimes be hard to find these days. People at the store can be rude, selfish and sometimes just down right stupid. Don't get me started on those on the road or online. How often do you come across someone who's kind enough to help an old lady with her bags (unless you work at the store and it's your job)? How often do people stop to help stranded drivers? How often do people actually give away expensive items they own to someone who could use them?

But even when it seems that our society is losing its kindness, someone always comes out to show that there is still hope. In my case, this kindness cam from more than 1 person. And to be honest, it was really unexpected. Probably because I just don't tend to expect this kind of kindness anymore.

Some of you have read about my recent computer disaster; my laptop video card basically died on me leaving unable to play my favorite online games and even to be able to watch movies either on the laptop or thru the laptop on to a TV. I was crused but this problem for this computer was the only one I had for gaming and my financial situation left me unable to fix it. Some may think I'm exagerating or out of my mind but my computer is as valuable to me as a person who's a big Yankee fan but lost his expensive, great seating, season tickets or a person with a '69 Chevy Camaro he just finished rebuilding himself and it either gets stolen or damaged in some way.

This damage to my laptop was a painful experience but jus when I thought I was out of the gaming world for a long time, hope came in the form of computer parts. My friends online decided they did not want me to drop out of gaming with them so they got to gether and started scrounging up computer parts from parts they had lying around the house. Parts they had replaced with new perts and stuff. Little by little I was advised to expect packages with all sorts of computer parts. I was blown away by what they were sending me, alone each part was pretty cheap compared to the most recent editions of them but together the computer was way out of my own financial reach. Getting each box almost brought a tear to my eye to think some people out there were willing to part with these computer parts just to get me back into the action with them. But the one this I trully never expect was that the one thing they could not find was a compatible CPU for the parts so what did they do? They bought one for me, out of thier own pockets. I was shocked beyond belief to find a brand new processor amognst the other used parts.

I was so excited to put this baby together for I only dreamed of having some of these parts but the saying "no one ever said life was fair" didn't fail to be true when I discovered that the motherboard was DOA. Just when I was all pumped up I ended up nearly giving up on this. But I decided not to let my friends, who had done some much for me to this point, down and while they searched for a replacement for the MoBo, I decided to contribute to this PC by purchasing the MoBo myself. I may not have been able to afford the entire PC or repair the laptop but the MoBo was low enough to get me up and running. Now I am happy to have a computer worthy enough to play my online games, too bad my financial situation dropped another road block as I was forced to let go of my internet service temporarly. How ironic, all this hard work trying to get the computer to work only to have the internet slip thru my fingers.

But, I'm one of those who thinks that things happen for a reason and losing my internet is not the end of the world. They say good things come to those who wait and I will simply wait till I get a chance to fire up the internet again. Hopefully it won't be a long wait but at least my friends are happy I am able to play at home and once the internet is up again I'll be ready for them.

So you see, there are still kind people out there. One simply needs to not give up. I only wish finding kind people was as common as finding batteries at just about any store. That wouldn't be such a bad Christmas gift, you listening Santa?

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