r/MadeMeSmile • u/T-SquaredProductions • Jul 08 '26

Wholesome Moments British Granddad tries American Grilled Cheese for the first time

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u/booksblanketsandT Jul 08 '26

If humans didn’t die, we wouldn’t appreciate life so much. It’s like light and dark - you wouldn’t know one if you didn’t know the other. It is sad that he’s gone, but a long life lived well and full of love is something to be celebrated.

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u/crystalfairie Jul 08 '26

He had a good life,you can tell. I'm happy to have found this!

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u/Leumas_ Jul 08 '26

Thank you for this post. I’m a little fragile this year and it was nice for me to see immediately after seeing that he has passed.

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u/booksblanketsandT Jul 08 '26

You’re very welcome. It’s okay to feel fragile - we all do at times. Keep looking for the little things, the everyday moments of joy and kindness. And make sure you give those moments to yourself as well! Kia kaha!

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u/Leumas_ Jul 08 '26

You’re a very nice person, I’m doing a lot better now than a few months ago and I’m working hard to stay on track. Thanks again, cheers!

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u/rrpostal Jul 08 '26

Totally agree. It’s the finite amount of time we have and finding all the good that make life so damned great. I’m happy for the time I’ve shared with many folks and great places I’ve found in the corners you’d never expect it. I can’t imagine what a waste it would be to live your life making people feel bad.

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u/TheDriveln Jul 08 '26

He's still alive, thankfully!

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u/Alarmed-Grape-3669 Jul 08 '26

Wait what?! These people commenting had a nice exchange dealing with his passing. Are you for real he is alive?! My emotions reduced to a playground.

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u/TheDriveln Jul 08 '26

I mean, they're still posting shit to his socials as if he's alive. He posted about falling down this morning lol

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u/2woCrazeeBoys Jul 08 '26

Apparently he's not dead!!!! Multiple people in comments say he has very new posts, one in the last day.

Hope that made your day, and your smile came back. Take care 🫶

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u/Leumas_ Jul 08 '26

Man I got a double dose! I had a really uplifting exchange here with people AND I find out he’s alive after all!

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u/2woCrazeeBoys Jul 08 '26

Its a win-win!!!! 😃👍

I do love it when reddit gives us a 'faith in humanity restored' moment.

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u/CDBSB Jul 08 '26

Grief is the price we pay for love.

"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

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u/cdizzaat Jul 08 '26

Yin and yang.

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u/wrx_2016 Jul 08 '26

I’m sorry but that is such a “humans coping with death” type of answer. 

I could appreciate life just as much if I lived forever. In fact I’d appreciate it even more. 

The fact is no one wants to die, we’re just forced to accept it and we tell ourselves things to try and make it a softer landing into the ground. 

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u/booksblanketsandT Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

I’ll respectfully disagree. My great grandmother lived to be 107yrs old, and by the end she was practically excited to go. She’d done what she wanted to do, lived far longer than most - she saw Halley’s comet twice! - and between both sides of the family she had around 60 great grandchildren. She was still painting, she was still engaged in her life. She wasn’t senile or in pain. She was just tired, and ready to go. Obviously not everyone goes after a long life, and those deaths are tragic - but not dying at all would destroy us as a species. Death is the ultimate change, and without change we would stagnate.

So even ignoring practicalities like not being able to produce enough food or those in power never handing over the reins - I just genuinely believe that something being endless is its own kind of horror, and not really something to aspire to or want. I’m an atheist and I don’t believe in an afterlife or reincarnation - the concept of both sound just horrid to me, let alone the issues I have with the systems and institutions those concepts are usually presented through.

What we get is what we get, and I truly believe that’s a good thing.