A Christmas Challenge...

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The description for the video:

"UPDATE, PLEASE READ
To all my friends and supporters,
I made this video 4 months ago just before school was about to start. I was 13. It was a very emotionally dark time in my life. I made the video at 4:00am in the morning; I hadn't been sleeping at night for a long time, too many things going on in my head. I was dreading going back to school and I had not come out to my family yet. Only my closest friends knew. I didn't know how to say what I needed to say. All I could think about were all the bad things that had been happening at school last year, every year for that matter. I just couldn't bare to go through that anymore. I was done being fake happy, pretending hateful words didn't hurt, done hiding it from my family.
So this video was made for my friends that had moved on to High School who were worried for me, to say to them that I was going to take a stand, and to the haters at my middle school that I'm not going anywhere. I am who I am. I posted the video here and told people were to find it. That was it.
My friends were moved by the video and thought I did something important. I was encouraged to upload it to my Facebook page so more people could see it. Maybe it could help someone else going through the same thing. So I linked it Dec. 1st. My Parents saw it for the first time Dec, 2nd.
Then..... all this happened.
I never expected in a million years that it would have such a wonderful impact on so many people. I am truly humbled and truly thankful for all the love, encouragement and support from people all over the world. It's been incredibly overwhelming. I don't know what to say. Thank you so, so much!
Lastly, yes you have seen me happy in a couple short videos replies I posted; I would think that would be a good thing , and yes I do have friends, my High School friends, and I have made friends because when I came out they realized that they had hurt me and that they fealt sorry. The video is real, and true.
In the last few months everything eventually came out in the open, I felt a huge weight off my shoulders; I'm happy, I'm excepted for who I am, I'm more confident and feel stronger every day.
Thank you all, Love and peace to all who are hurting.
Jonah Mowry"

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Even though most of these videos are advertisements, we should look past that and see the deeper meaning. Sometimes we are so caught up with our own lives that it's hard to see what's going on around us, and it's videos like these that make us, or me at least, appreciate what we have. It's a shame to see people so distraught over losing what they've previously taken for granted.

This Christmas, I have a challenge for you:
Be generous, be nice, and of course ( the point of this thread) be thankful!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=DEx6c6qGe0w

After 4 months ^ Is it a lie?

 

Wow... this is a wonderful thread. Thankyou for posting!

It is just so amazing how many things in life we take for granted each and every single day, and how many people out there have things 100x worse, yet they wake up every day and have the courage to smile, to laugh, and to share that with other people. The story below about the guy with no arms and no legs was extremely inspiring to me in particular.. I have never seen anything like that in my entire life and it makes me so grateful for the things I do have, and it makes me feel so happy to see somebody as strong and courageous as that guy. I wish I could be more like him, and I want to try and take the same concepts and principles he speaks of and apply them to my own life.

My first time seeing that first video you posted was just a few days ago. I heard about the story in the news, and how that boys story has reached out so far and touched so many people, even celebrities have tweeted or messaged him in response and told him to hang in there. A truly inspirational story

Once again, thank you so much for posting this. Have a wonderful Christmas yourself man, and thanks for sharing the love!!

 

Whether it's legitimate or not is irrelevant; the videos morals are there regardless of its true intentions

No problem, glad you enjoyed it

 

Im always nice But santa never brings me anything . Always my girlfriend dressed as santa.