Fine! It’s Cute, OK?

So, I’m pretty blasé and jaded when it comes to caches.  As a previously mentioned consequence, I am not exactly liberal with my disbursement of favorite points.  When I discuss them, I often use the phrase “stingily hoarded,” and having almost seven hundred favorites remaining, I feel that is an accurate assessment.  Imagine my surprise to find myself awarding one on a new cache.  It wasn’t epic or impressive, like some I have seen.  It was small, simple, and, as much as I don’t like to admit it, cute.  Who knew that a simple little lizard and some static grass in a box would be enough to earn my favor?

I think this is where I should say that favorites exist for a reason.  We all know that they’re to designate especially clever or entertaining caches.  But I guess what I really want to say here is that you shouldn’t be like me.  I have a tendency to be especially judgmental when it comes to caches.  I have to be really impressed with one to give it a favorite, and that bar has slowly risen over the years.  There are caches I was once impressed with that I wouldn’t think twice about now.  Not that I never give them more frivolously (I once gave a cache a favorite merely because it was named after my favorite TV show), but you don’t have to be like me.  There are a lot of cachers who spend time, money, and energy creating caches for our consumption.  You can easily make someone’s day by leaving a favorite point to show that you appreciate their efforts.  And it’s not like favorites are a rare commodity to be dispensed with great caution and care.  You can spread them around on a whim!  So, what’s stopping you?  I know why I don’t spread them around.  I can’t help being blasé and jaded.  But don’t be like me.  Share the love!  You have it to give!