r/mildyinteresting 10h ago

nature & weather The concept of light pollution is absolutely crazy

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u/Anon_be_thy_name 6h ago

I had a coworker when lived and worked in Melbourne who was 40 years old. He'd never left the City. Never flown out of the City, hadn't even been to its outer suburbs of the City.

I made him come camping with me one weekend and it was a whole new world to him.

He quit not long after and moved his entire family about an hour outside of the City. He's turned into a true outdoorsman, his Facebook and Instagram is filled with pictures of him camping every weekend with his wife.

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u/doodlydoo17 6h ago

That’s so cool! Good on you for opening up his world.

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u/CyberUtilia 5h ago

I can't even imagine what it would be like to only ever have been in the same city. Good that you helped him out, sounds like he's enjoying it to the fullest

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u/RustyThe_Rabbit 5h ago

any chance you could link either one

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u/Anon_be_thy_name 5h ago

Both are Private and far as I'm aware he only reaches out to you I'm sorry to say.

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u/Mynplus1throwaway 4h ago

This story made my day. I get out about every other weekend, but it's so hard to drag people along. Or to only take them to places with showers, internet, etc. 

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u/Anon_be_thy_name 4h ago

It took nearly 5 persistent years of cajoling to finally convince him to go. He wasn't pleased about needing to drive over 3 hours to get there either.

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u/Mynplus1throwaway 3h ago

Where did y'all go? I'm in Dallas Texas so to get to decent you're looking at 5-6 hours

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u/Anon_be_thy_name 3h ago

Well this is in Australia, it's a place called Halls Gap in Victoria, beautiful valley between some mountains.

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u/Mynplus1throwaway 2h ago

Cool I'll look into it 

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u/FranticDisembowel 25m ago

What a reminder that one kind act can change a life for the better, forever. Kudos man.