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   Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 09:10:40 JST Kim Scheinberg

   The holidays can be a really tough time. The advice I often heard was, "Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Help others. Get out of your head." It's perfectly fine advice, but unhelpful if the mere thought of interacting with people is overwhelming. Anyway, here's a thing I did one year that did help:

   I bought a Cookie Monster costume, went to the airport, and waited at arrivals with a sign that said "COOKIE"

   Didn't have to talk to anyone and boy did I get to watch people's faces light up.

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 09:10:36 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     • clacke
     • sergio_101

     @sergio_101 @clacke
     I did not
     I was offered a few though

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     sergio_101 (sergio_101@social.sixdegreesofohio.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 09:10:39 JST sergio_101

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     • clacke

     @kims @clacke

     Hold up. Did you give out cookies?

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 12:47:33 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     • Ewen Bell 📸

     @ewen
     It was a really helpful thing for me at the time. And I did it again a few years ago when I wrote that thread

     But boy, the world we live in now seems so removed from those days. It's hard to conjure up that sort of Good Will Towards Men when I now know things about one-third of my neighbors that I didn't understand at such a visceral level back then

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     Ewen Bell 📸 (ewen@social.ewenbell.com)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 12:47:38 JST Ewen Bell 📸

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     @kims
     
     This speaks to me on a whole other level.
     
     Everytime I think about that need to get out and connect with community, and do something useful, I am immediately confronted with the terror of actually talking to lots of strangers and not being able to politely escape the room.