177: LEGO Flowers & Random Acts of Kindness Shared by one of Our Listeners (TikTok Live)

Roula (00:01)
Just a quick note listeners that this episode was recorded live on TikTok. Unfortunately, some of the audio isn't great. So please bear with us. I still think it's a fun episode and in the future we are going to work on getting the audio nice and crispy. In the meantime, enjoy this imperfect episode. Bye.

Roula (00:35)
Hi, Barb. Yay, it's Barb. She was watching me make Lego. You're still building Lego? Yes, I just finished it. I was like, I'm on a time crunch. I got to be ready for Rosie and Roula Oh, right. So what's your Lego? It's still the flowers? Yeah, it is. I've put it somewhere else now, but here's a picture. It's a parrot.

⁓ it's lovely! Yeah, cool, huh? It's so cool, yes!

Very cool. Well, you know, I don't know where to put all the Legos that we have because it's so nice to build a Lego. Only I find it a dust magnet. whenever you put a Lego somewhere, it's collecting dust. need a glass cabinet, don't you? So it doesn't get dusty. Can you imagine everyone has Lego? You have to have a glass cabinet and

What a cost! Aren't they expensive enough? It's already expensive enough. Yeah, like the one I'm doing isn't real Lego. It's a cheap brand, but it's really good. It's only $29. Hold on. I have these that I didn't name them. Lego flowers. I got them on Mother's Day a few years ago. And we really enjoyed to...

putting them together, my kids and I, but every time I clean them, pieces fall out and then I have to put them back. It's annoying. It's so crazy. Now, Roula, you're being very rude to our guests because Barb has asked you how you are. I think you should answer that question. ⁓ Barb, I'm doing great. Today I'm doing great. Yesterday I wanted to kill someone. So.

Rosie (02:25)
no!

Roula (02:26)
And then you had really awful dreams. What is going on with you? Well, you know, life is going on with me. This is life. Yeah, that's true. Barb, tell Roula what happened today. involves flowers.

⁓ so how does she tell us the story? She write it in the comment or I invite her. mean, we can invite her up here. don't know if she's ready for it. If she feels like she might not want to. But in the chat. OK, up to you, Bob, if you'd like to come up, you are more than welcome. my God. I'm so glad you're here. I feel you're holding my hand on this for the people listening to us.

So until Barb has told us who's... messaged. He ignored it and started talking about our podcast because you're very rude. Shut up. A beautiful random lady came up to me and gave me some flowers.

Wow! This is amazing!

Like, what's even more beautiful about it is yesterday when I was talking to Barb, she said she's feeling a bit stressed, like things were a bit much. And isn't the timing of it uncanny? Some wonderful, beautiful, kind, generous stranger thought, you know what, I think Barb could use some flowers.

So Barb, how did you feel when you thanked her? Were you hesitant to take in the flowers? What was your reaction? Because sometimes we feel, is it right to take the flower or whatever? How did it make you feel at that moment? It's made her day. Amazing. Yeah. ⁓ It's so Random accidents. My nurse.

⁓ and you know what? think it makes the person who's doing the act of kindness feel great as well. Absolutely. We talked about this also on our one episode that sometimes doing act of kindness is needed to make you also feel happy, not receiving but giving. Yes, and in that way, it's selfish, but it's not bad.

Again, another topic we've spoken about. Why is being selfish bad? It's not.

to a certain degree, people were not we're talking about healthy selfish. Go listen to the episode. Yeah.

so Barb is saying she had a few booklets, so I think she wanted to do for others too. Wow, she's on a streak of making people happy.

Very appreciative. Yeah, that's so kind. love it. kind. So maybe we could go out and hand out bouquets to people.

Yes. Well, maybe not bouquets because here in the Netherlands they're so expensive, but nice flowers. Like, what just want flowers? I'll just rip out a blade of grass. can have that. Maybe I'll make some origami, origami flowers. Can you do that? Well, I've forgotten how to do it, but I used to be able to. I remember one Mother's Day, I gave mum some origami, like a bouquet of origami flowers.

And they were huge!

I bet they're so relaxing to make.

See? So she made you happy and you're talking about it. It makes you even more happy when you talk about it. It's just an oxytocin situation. hold on, Rosie. I'm going to move to another topic. Is that OK? Yeah, all right. All right. Yes, it is.