Feel-Good Box

[ValkyrieRaven88]

I recently got a touching note from a friend of mine, a seventeen-year-old Mexican exchange student who shares some classes with me. She does not speak English very well, and I help her with her homework and translate for her when she needs me to. The note basically thanked me for everything I had done to help her, and for being there when she needed me.

I read it several times, and made up my mind to keep it and take it out when I began to feel inadequate or depressed. And then the idea was sparked in my mind to make a "feel-good box" of nice letters and other things that made me feel good about myself. I arranged one, and I am going to take it to college with me, because God knows then I'll need something to cheer me up when I'm crying.

I just got to wondering if anyone else did this. If not, what would you put in your feel-good box if you had one?

The contents of mine:
1. The letter from my Mexican friend
2. A letter from a professional writer after viewing my writing when I was twelve
3. A list of nice things about me written by all my classmates in a class activity
4. Some essays for my College English class with "excellent" written all over in red ink
5. My certificate for my brownbelt in karate
6. A card from my grandmother that says "Don't follow someone else's footprints--they may not lead where you want to go!"

That's all I've got so far. Planning to add on. Maybe one day I'll have a nice little letter in there proclaiming me a published author.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

Oh, that's a good idea! I should do it too since I need cheered up rather often due to my work environment.

One of the things that would be in mine is a letter of gratitude that I received from the mother of my Japanese friend. She came to college last year. I befriended her on her second day in the U.S. and was always there when I could help. I had time to kill between classes so I sat in one of hers and took notes, cutting out all the tangents that the professor went on. It really helped her a lot. I even did my best to help her with a sociology course that I had taken the previous year. (I despise Philip Roth's American Pastoral.) She had her mother send me a box full of the entire series of Rurouni Kenshin manga in the original Japanese, along with some other anime stuff, and the short letter was included.

 

[BnB]

Great idea!!! I cant wait to try it! Not sure what I will put in it, but probably some fun things from my children!! Thanks!!!

 

[ValkyrieRaven88]

Great idea!!! I cant wait to try it! Not sure what I will put in it, but probably some fun things from my children!! Thanks!!!

^^ Your welcome. Glad I could be of service.