Long Straight Highway (redux) » amazon http://www.longstraighthighway.com amusements for gentlemen and scholars Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:54:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 This makes it all worthwhile http://www.longstraighthighway.com/2010/02/05/this-makes-it-all-worthwhile/ http://www.longstraighthighway.com/2010/02/05/this-makes-it-all-worthwhile/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:09:41 +0000 shanusmagnus http://www.longstraighthighway.com/?p=1606 In 2003, apparently, I wrote an Amazon review for an audiobook. I had forgotten both the book and the review until this morning, when I got an update that some random person had commented on it. You can read the original post and the comment here.

Seriously, I can’t tell you how much this brightened my day. It’s weird, awesome (in the literal sense) and sad, all at once, to think about the power you have to make somebody feel great, by doing very very little. And how often you choose to not exercise this power.

But then, how easy it would be to change that. (Let’s end on an optimistic note.)

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