Hey Pandas, What's A Really Small Thing That's Made A Really Big Difference In Your Life? (Closed)

A daith piercing in my left ear. Also called a migraine piercing. I have scoliosis (not bad enough to warrant surgery), and meds would either stop working after a while, or permanently damage my liver. Two years ago I got it done and my aural migraines went down by like 90%. I don´t care if it is a placebo effect or real. It helped.

I applied to a project that will pay you to go back to school and get a nurse degree. I got accepted and will start my training in september without financial issues!

Anxiety medicine.
You have no idea how much that helped me get through the day.

I started a new job about 8 months ago and a few days ago I purchased a cushion for my office chair and this has CHANGED MY LIFE. I actually look forward to going to work now and get more work done and take less sneaky breaks, who knew a £5 cushion could make such a difference.

A coronary artery stent. It's amazing how much better you can feel with more than 2% blood flow in one of the main arteries.

A shoutout sunday from thomas sanders. I was contemplating killing myself a couple weeks ago and later that day I went on tiktok and watched thomas sanders, I scrolled down through the tiktoks until I found a shoutout sunday for people named Willow (my name) I sat there in shock while it repeated 5 times and then I started to cry and it reminded me that I need to stay alive so I can hopefully meet this wonderful man someday (Thomas in general has been a huge part of my journey with suicidal thoughts (mainly me wanting to stay alive so i can say hi to him someday) and accepting my sexuality/gender and stuff, if you don't know who he is please check him out he is the most amazing pure person on this earth and i love him)

As a girl of about 9 I let my curiosity get the better of me and broke open my sisters Chatty Cathy doll to see how it worked. I was so enthralled by the mechanism inside that from that point forward I HAD to find out how things worked. Toys to begin with, then mechanical things, then electrical things. I had a 40 career as am automobile repair technician, mechanic to us old dogs, was one of 85 women in the United States that became a Certified Master Technician, and one of 45 women in the US to become an A1 Certified Master Tech. And I loved every minute of it. Thank you Chatty Cathy, you influenced every aspect of my childhood and adulthood.

My hair growing back! Lost it three times due to chemo and really struggled with it as I just didn’t feel or look like myself. During the past 15 months of the pandemic I haven’t been able to have a hair cut and I’ve actually managed to grow it to a really lovely length. It feels goods to feel more myself again.

a specific eyeliner. I liked to wear make up because it makes me feel pretty and confident. But I have oily skin on my eyelids which leads to eyeliner smearing all over my lid. I stopped wearing eyeliner until I found a nyx one. It stays on for the whole day and is pretty much waterproof. It changed my make up game for the better and now I wear it every day. It really is a confident boost

During nursing school, I had an hour and a half commute both ways. I recorded lecture and would listen to it during that drive. Also would listen to YouTube (Simple Nursing and RegisteredNurseRN are great).

Also, figure out your learning style.

Made straight As. Even in pharm!

My pet rat

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This makes me feel ok.Just realised while helping out our fellow community member above.Anxiety kills the joy in every moment.

Meeting my friend Pebble (Not their real name, just a nickname) She is a person I trust 100% to confide in and talk to about nothing and everything. We are super similar, but also, super different! She is like a sister to me!

Meeting the love of my life and having kids leading to Grandkids and I love them all!

A watercolor box set.
I have the chance to buy some of them and some day I will be able to buy more expensive ones.
I just love the effect of watercolors.

people smiling at me in the streets for n reason. just slimilung. makes my day better all the time

Lemons.
It's making a grand impact on my health as I'm reducing salt in my diet to keep blood pressure healthy. I used to have fairly high BP years ago, but ever since I've learned that lemon juice along with other spices/acids is a great salt substitute for flavor from watching a few cooking shows.

I now almost never add salt or sodium based spices/condiments to my dishes for quite the longest while. In addition with the lowered BP, my anxiety with things have gone down and I've learned how to get big flavor in the meals I make (mostly chicken, tofu, salmon meats). I do use other things like spices/acids (vinegar) in addition or just leave out the lemon juice and use chili for big flavor.

Having a screen free day. I feel like you miss out on so much when ur glued to ur phone. So for a day, I get everything I need to do done and I try to get excersise and enjoy the outdoors.

It was exactly 12th of September 2010. There was a really bad storm outside and because of this my mom let me stay at home instead of going to school.

I was chatting online and met three years older guy from different city. I befriended him, his (online) presence helped me survive my last, veeery nasty year of secondary school (at tje time I was bullied by both students and some teachers up to the point where I seriously considered suicide) and he inspired me to enroll in high school as far from my toxic hometown as possible.

Ten years later I am living in different part of the country, visiting my hometown maybe twice per year (and only because of my parents), I have lovely group of friends and I can honestly say that I'm happy.
(Unfortunately, I lost contact with my internet friend through the course of time.)

Would there be a nice weather on that day ten years ago, who knows, maybe I wouldn't even be alive today.

Buying a wireless keyboard for my ipad, I don't have to bring my laptop with me everywhere I go now, and I can get work done more easily!