# Any thought behind "Favorites" **URL:** \ **Category:** YoYoExpert Site Improvements\ **Created:** [June 15, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-thought-behind-favorites/447403 "2026-06-15T01:17:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-thought-behind-favorites/447403/8 "2026-07-31T11:02:52Z")
I give a lot of yo-yos away.. I bring extras to events and places we go regularly. When I spy a likely candidate, first I ask them if they know yo-yo. The word. The item. 🪀 I gotta find out if **they are a yo-yo person**. - If they don’t, I proceed to demo and see how into it they are. Depends on the person. Some adults are like “this is kid stuff”, it’s as if they _forgot how to enjoy life_. Well whatever, man! - If they do… this is where it get magical. I get the gift yo-yo out, and I watch their face closely as I reveal it. Those who _truly_ remember yo-yo, **the joy of play is written all over their face**.. it’s unmistakable, that moment, and I savor what’s about to happen ✨ One guy recently was like, _I get to keep this? Are you sure? I don’t deserve this_. And he was good! _Really_ good! Like in the top 5% of people I give yo-yos to! He was doing a lot of the basic responsive moves, as if he had never stopped playing. Still, even as I was leaving, he tried to return it to me, even though I told him multiple times I brought it to give away and I wanted him to have it. Finally I said: > No man, you _do deserve this_. Look how good you are with it! I am _giving it to you_. I don’t _want_ it back. What I want is for you to have fun with this yo-yo and your reflected joy is worth so much more than this yo-yo to me. Mandatory fun! He had a kid, and I told him I’d come back with another for his son. I’ve been so busy, but I need to do that. I promised him. This is a good reminder. Now, what I didn’t tell him is that every day I find myself looking for _a reason to be alive_. And that interaction – what we said to each other, how we made each other _feel_, the way we will _always_ remember that moment – is a _reason to be alive_. And now I’m sharing it with all of you, because [happiness is only real when shared](https://blog.codinghorror.com/on-the-meaning-of-coding-horror/). TL;DR this is my long winded way of saying **_ALL_ yo-yo people are my favorites**. At least on this forum, the “favorite user” feature would be redundant. 💛 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-thought-behind-favorites/447403)._