the feels

All aboard the feels trip express. This heartfelt and deeply moving story centers on a kid discovering his deceased dad's notebook. Sometimes life invites you to find some beauty through the pain. Such seems to be the case for this guy. 

Someone on AskReddit asked for people that joined the military to share their regrets. These are pretty rough. 

This feels trip of an AskReddit thread has people describing the emotionally painful times that they realized they'd actually married the wrong person. Sometimes you throw in with another person that you're convinced is your soulmate, and then go on to realize that there are insurmountable obstacles in the way of the two of you having a fruitful and loving relationship. After a realization like that the purest expression of love can really be to just let the person go. 

Life is stressful, there's no doubt about that. But there's always room for some positivity in life, even when things are strained. Wholesome memes can provide a little boost when life is being a whole lot. It's probably better for everyone to take some time and accept some wholesome memes because some things are still nice.

Dungeons and Dragons lets your most creative friends come up with amazing ways to send you on adventures. Sometimes dungeon masters take the story far enough that it actually draws out a real emotional response from the players. People think a lot about fantasy worlds, like how this guy proposes that wizards are a bunch of magic snobs or this thing about dwarves having intelligent super beards.

Sheila O'Malley's story about her friends taking a risk and intervening when she was too overwhelmed by grief to ask for the help she needed is a beautiful thing. Sometimes being a true and loving friend is stepping up for that person in your life who can't see what kind of hole they're in, and needs someone who cares enough to notice what's going, to step in and help get them out of it. This story's got all the feels. 

Careful, this post hits hard in the feelsplex. We get to hear some thoughts about life from a 24-year-old who was diagnosed with cancer, and too late for any good chance at survival. A definite big takeaway is don't sweat the small stuff. Make decisions from a place of courage, love, and positivity, and shape a beautiful life from there. 

Well isn't this a wonderfully heartwarming and wholesome little post? Nav Bhatia's a 67-year-old legend who's been to every Toronto basketball game since 1995. And by the sounds of it, he's one of the most entertaining parts about the game. 

A simple writing prompt can inspire some seriously intriguing stories, like this story about lies taking the shape of scars or this Tumblr story about aliens being fought off by wildlife. Any novel premise can give way to a short story that gets surprisingly intriguing, gut-wrenching or just plain wild.

The world's full of enough troubling chaos as it is. Let's mix it up with a welcomed wave of wholesome goodness. This AskReddit thread has people sharing the kindest things they've seen, or done themselves. Spread that positive energy. 

This teacher's wholesome moment with a rather moody student ended up coming full circle in the best way. The universe speaks in mysterious ways. It sounds like the teacher left a profoundly positive impact on the student who was going through a tough time. You never know how far an act of kindness can carry someone down the wild road of life. 

This woman on Twitter provided a powerful illustration of how devastating the grief process can be. Anyone who has ever been through a tough time in their life will understand this analogy on a painfully relatable level. 

It doesn't get much more heartwarming than this story about a mom surviving a terribly frightening stroke. She manages to get just the kind of clutch care that she desperately needed in a life-defining moment. 

Someone on AskReddit asked for doctors and nurses to share their experiences with encountering couples that realized the kid was not the father's. Talk about a full-fledged nightmare situation. There's not really any coming back from that. The sobering moment of realization has got to be the living definition of soul-crushing. Can't even imagine.