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Joined: September 5, 2015

What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

MettaFilter Bhavana

Start with thoughts of goodwill for yourself.
Then spread thoughts of goodwill to others.
Start with MeFites who are close to your heart: ones you're friends with in real life, ones you favorite so often that it's embarrassing.
Then spread those thoughts out in ever-widening circles.
To MeFites you know and like enough to add as contacts.
To MeFites whose usernames ring a bell, even though you don't know them so well.
To MeFites you're more neutral about.
And to MeFites you don't like.
Remind yourself MetaFilter would be a much better place if every user could learn how to find true happiness within.
Spread thoughts of goodwill to MeFites who have harmed you in the past.
May they learn to be truly happy.
Spread thoughts of goodwill to MeFites you have harmed in the past.
May they learn to be truly happy, too.
Spread thoughts of goodwill to MeFites you don't even know.
And not just MeFites, but living beings of all kinds—East, West, North, South, above and below, out to infinity.
May we all find true happiness in our hearts.