2Paw wuff lumberpads up to a wizzago, and supplies pudding. And spork! ^_^ Is a big part of reaching out, to not always know how far one's effort will reach and change, and touch other folks in one's life. It's not always something one is meant to know. 2Paw wuff chooses to believe that making the effort, being that booster rocket to get your friends, family, children, students and/or anyone else you care about as far as you can manage without expiring yourself, is what makes it worth it. Sometimes you'll drift away from someone for one reason or another, and it's not that you forget them as much as that drifting is sometimes a natural effect of existing.

You never forget, and that can be a constructive thing as well as a hurtful thing, depending on what you're doing at the time. Even if there's not a conscious remembering of a kindness you've done, whether or not it was even intended beyond the moment, it's still there and it probably helped someone along, at best.

-2Paw.

Open mind is like fertile soil, 2paw... in such a garden of the soul anything can be grown with nurture and patience... curiosity and love. A closed mind is like barren desert sand... little grows and what does is limited and small. It is true there is life in the desert... but so much more in the jungle. Some might think us gardeners who spread seeds of thought and... it is not entirely untrue. But I think it is better to be one who helps fertilize the soil... create the open mind and let it find it's own seed. Endless possibilities grow bountiful crops of beautiful diversity. I have no sand in my pockets.