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Pediatrician Alastair McAlpine gave some of his terminal patients an assignment. What they told him can inspire us all.

"Kids can be so wise, y'know," the Cape Town doctor and ultra-marathon enthusiast posted to his Twitter account. He asked the young patients, short on time, about the things that really mattered to them.

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A viral post argues East Coast folks are better people even if they aren't as 'nice' as those out West

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This article originally appeared on 01.22.21

Having lived in small towns and large cities in the Pacific Northwest, Southwest, and Midwest, and after spending a year traveling around the U.S. with my family, I've seen first-hand that Americans have much more in common than not. I've also gotten to experience some of the cultural differences, subtle and not-so-subtle, real and not-so-real, that exist in various parts of the country.

Some of those differences are being discussed in a viral thread on Twitter. Self-described "West coaster" Jordan Green kicked it off with an observation about East coasters being kind and West coasters being nice, which then prompted people to share their own social experiences in various regions around the country.

Green wrote:

Niceness is saying "I'm so sorry you're cold," while kindness may be "Ugh, you've said that five times, here's a sw… https://t.co/HjUDcAr9v9
— Jordan K. Green (@Jordan K. Green) 1611263478

"When I describe East Coast vs West Coast culture to my friends I often say 'The East Coast is kind but not nice, the West Coast is nice but not kind,' and East Coasters immediately get it. West Coasters get mad.

Niceness is saying 'I'm so sorry you're cold,' while kindness may be 'Ugh, you've said that five times, here's a sweater!' Kindness is addressing the need, regardless of tone.

I'm a West Coaster through and through—born and raised in San Francisco, moved to Portland for college, and now live in Seattle. We're nice, but we're not kind. We'll listen to your rant politely, smile, and then never speak to you again. We hit mute in real life. ALOT.

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"Am I dad now?"

All Zarcilla wanted was to grab a sweater. He found a litter of kittens under his bed instead.

Hello and welcome to the world's most adorable existential crisis.

If there's one thing that this story proves, it's how important animals are in our lives.

Zarcilla even pointed out the fact that being with the cats and the responsibility of becoming #CatDad may really be helping his mental health.

Of course, not all of us will be blessed with the discovery of a whole group of cats in our own homes.

And for a quick update... looks like the journey of his, "cat life" is evolving.

Twitter is not real life.

It's incredibly easy to incorporate these lessons into our lives.

Pediatrician Alastair McAlpine gave some of his terminal patients an assignment. What they told him can inspire us all.

First, it's worth looking at what wasn't important to these kids.

Many talked about the people and animals who would miss them when they were gone.

They all loved stories, and many wish they'd spent less time and energy worrying about what others thought about them.

What was important was having fun, being kind, and holding on to their sense of humor.

Above all, they cherished their families (and favorite toys).

There's a lot we can learn from these kids — and it's incredibly easy to incorporate their lessons into our lives.

Muhammad is statistically the most common first name on the planet while Wang is the most common last name on the planet. But I still haven’t met anyone named Muhammad Wang.

The only word in the English language with all vowels+Y in alpha order is “facetiously”

Queen Elizabeth is one of the only people in the world who doesn’t need a passport to travel. Everyone else in the royal family does.

NYE goes hard

In DNA, mushrooms are more similar to animals than they are to plants.

London Tube platforms have different tilings because when the Tube was originally built, a lot of people who used it were illiterate, and the different tilings helped them know what station they were at.pic.twitter.com/Yw8e04zCJA

You've never seen your own face. You've seen a reflection, and you've seen pictures, but you've never actually seen your own face!

Elephants are the only animals other than humans who have something like funerals. They cover the dead elephant gently with leaves and branches, then stand around in a circle for hours making sad noises.

There was a day when your parents put you down and never picked you up again.

Humans have a coccyx (aka a tailbone) which is the remnant of, you guessed it, a vestigial tail. One of our several vestigial features.

The act of touching glasses to cheers comes from medieval suspicions of poisoning each other, so youd slam mugs together to spill each others drinks into your own to show trust you werent trying to kill them. Europeans man...

Male dolphins can ejaculate as far as 10' and with such force it can kill a human if that human was foolish enough to attempt zoophilic relations with dolphin.

Artificial raspberry and strawberry flavoring comes from the anal glands of a beaver.

If you are attacked by a gator and your arm is in its jaws, push, don't pull. If you can push the flap open at the back of its throat, water rushes in and it starts to drown and will open jaws, hopefully releasing you.

The Phenomena: "The Doorway Effect" When you forget the reason you enter a different room. To retrieve the reason, walk backwards w/o turning around. It can trigger the memory.

Delightfully unexpected and unexpectedly delightful.

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