I know the world feels like it’s circling the drain most days.
Open social media and it’s rage bait, grifters, and people filming themselves pretending to care about things for clicks.
Then there’s the performative empaths doing things like it’s some new TikTok trend.
But then there’s Josh…
This guy goes around handing out food, cash, whatever people need and he does it because he actually gives a shit.
Not because there’s a camera crew staging the perfect “wholesome moment.”
Not because he’s building a personal brand called Kindness™ or whatever.
He just does it.
And his community? (Yes we know a lot of communities are batshit unhinged)
They are the ones who help fund it.
Real people throwing in real money so Josh can keep being a decent human in a world that’s forgotten what that looks like.
No marketing spin. No “join our movement” horseshit. Just a guy who saw people struggling and thought, “Yeah, I should probably help.”
I don’t know about you, but that hits different, especially this time of the year.
And I know how easy it is to get cynical. Easy to assume every good deed is just another play to appeal to the social media engine.
Easy to think everyone’s in it for themselves.
Josh is out there proving that wrong though.
And maybe that’s the thing we need to remember when the news cycle feels like a slow motion car crash and half the internet is trying to sell you something you don’t need. (I DON’T WANT YOUR SCENTED CANDLES TIFFANY)
There are still good people doing good things.
Not for applause. Not for shares.
Just because it’s the right fucking thing to do.
So yeah. The world’s still dark in a lot of places.
But there’s light too.
And sometimes it looks like Josh, walking around his neighbourhood, making someone’s day a little less heavy.
That’s it. That’s the email.
Stephen Walker.