Kindness Stories / Feel Good Stories

An ER Visit From Hell Brightened By A Random Act Of Kindness

By A Friend on May 26, 2026 / 146 views

In August of 2020, my daughter (10 years-old at the time) and I went over to a friend's house for a BBQ. It was early in the pandemic, which will be important later on in the story. The kids swam in the pool and were bouncing in their trampoline. At one point, I hear screaming and run over to the trampoline. My daughter is in shock (not even crying at that point) and her arm is hanging by her side in a...

Passenger Complimented Me On My Smile

By George on May 26, 2026 / 116 views

This happened summer last year but I felt like sharing. On a rather warm summer evening I was working at a train station, it was during rush hour so it was pretty hectic and I was helping a passenger find the train he was intending to get. Out of nowhere he comment "by the way every time I come through here you have the biggest smile" Me: "Oh really? Thank you so...

I Just Started At This Job Two Weeks Ago And My Coworkers Got Me A Birthday Card

By Rebecca on May 25, 2026 / 305 views

So my birthday was May 2nd and I started this job on May 11th. I was not expecting a birthday card at all. I was definitely on the verge of tears, but I didn’t want to cry because I knew I wouldn’t be able to stop. Really made me feel seen and...

Faith In The Middle Of The Storm

By James Goodrich on May 25, 2026 / 319 views

When things are going right, the family is happy, work is going well, we’re getting good breaks, we know God is in control, He is on the throne, He’s directing our steps. But having faith doesn’t exempt us from difficulties. The storms of life come to every person. Someone walks out of our life, we lose someone to an illness, business slows. In the difficult times it’s easy to ask, God...

Medical Support Bear

By A Friend on May 22, 2026 / 686 views

I had to get a small procedure done today and I had to be put under. I brought a teddy bear with me for comfort and emotional support. When I woke up, I saw that the nurses gave my emotional support teddy bear a medical mask and a mini bonnet cap to match mine. I just thought this was so sweet and cute, and it made me smile when I came...

A Guy On A Train Gave Me A Piece Of Candy And It Saved My Life

By A Friend on May 21, 2026 / 996 views

A year and a half ago, I was mentally at my lowest. My girlfriend broke up with me, one of my best friends started hating me, I was made fun of often in school. All my life, I've been made fun of. For my appearance, for my clumsiness, for being cringy and emotionally unstable. I was just tired of everything and everyone. I wasn't particularly good at anything, and I've almost never had...

I Didn’t Expect Bird Feeders To Become Part Of My Daily Routine, But Here We Are

By A Friend on May 20, 2026 / 1,070 views

Some months back I was feeling heavy, not the heavy of a crisis, but that everyday weight work deadlines, noise all day long, way too much screen time. I needed something easy to turn down the noise in my brain and one weekend I set up a couple of bird feeders outside my bedroom window, frankly expecting it to be a short-lived experiment. The first couple of days yielded nothing and I started...

Remember That Small Acts Can Go A Long Way

By A Friend on May 20, 2026 / 1,128 views

It’s amazing how a single, passing comment can change someone’s entire day. Today I went out for a walk between classes. It wasn’t different from any other day, but I was stopped this time. A woman passing me commented that my bag had lovely colors, which I could hardly believe since it’s a raggedy thing. What threw me, however, was her genuine smile and the sweetest English...

Love And Pain

By Joseph J. Mazzella on May 19, 2026 / 1,244 views

I hurt my back as a boy and it never quite healed right. I don’t know if it was from playing football, lifting weights unsupervised, or wrecking my bike. But for over 40 years now my back has been in pain every single day. No amount of stretching it, exercising it, cracking it, popping it, icing it, heating it, or resting it makes the pain go away for long. Doctors and Chiropractors haven’t been...

I Installed My Baby Girls Car Seat. My First “real Dad” Thing. Best Morning Ever

By A Friend on May 18, 2026 / 1,115 views

Wife and I have been trying for years and we (mostly her) went through the IVF route and she is finally pregnant and we are 24 weeks along. Today she asked me to install the car seat so that our dog can get used to it being there. Took me a full hour and after no texts or call back, a couple of YouTube videos that didn’t help, I finally got it installed by myself :). Wife came out...

Bought An Orchid For A Publix Employee For Mother’s Day

By Kat on May 18, 2026 / 1,208 views

I just wanted to yap about this interaction I had the other day and don’t really have anyone to talk to about it. I was at Publix buying a few items. At the self checkout, an employee was there greeting customers and monitoring the self checkout. She was talking to herself a lot, just thinking out loud. She said “hm I think this is what I asked my son for for Mother’s...

Coworkers Got Me A Birthday Cake

By Rae on May 16, 2026 / 1,522 views

I'm 18 and currently working my first job. There is a woman in my office, let's call her Mary, who is always really sweet to everyone. She always organises cakes and celebrations for everyone and she's generally just lovely to be around. We haven't known each other for long but she always asks me how I am and calls me "my angel" all the time. When I walked into the office...

Random Seat Mate On Long-haul Flight Made A Lasting Impression

By Coloredchalk on May 15, 2026 / 1,645 views

So I was just reading a story about somebody on a long flight with a screaming baby and how she was treated, and it made me think of how I had the opposite experience. I’ve got pretty bad anxiety in general and Covid made it a lot worse, so while my husband and I have always loved traveling, we haven’t really gone anywhere since we started having kids. Last summer we started traveling...

Tooth Fairy Assistant

By Tkotickle on May 14, 2026 / 1,666 views

My son lost his first tooth on the school bus today. An older girl gave him this tiny container to keep it safe. Later when I look at it closer, I realized it’s not just a random doll accessory, but a specific "tooth saver box". I’m now utterly amused by the possibility that this 12-year-old just walks around with a handful of these in her bag, prepared for dental...

Random Woman From Far Away Sees Me Crying And Checks In On Me

By A Friend on May 13, 2026 / 1,798 views

So I was having a hard day. And my boyfriend was having a long week. And a 30 minutes ago that caused us to butt heads. I'll admit I'm sensitive, so I had to end the call with him to go outside and have a cry. Why outside? I live with other people and the sound carries in that house like you're yelling into a tunnel. The outer walls have thicker walls. Well, my house is about...

An Act Of Kindness Saved My Life, Kindness Saves. Hate Does Not

By A Friend on May 12, 2026 / 2,049 views

Hi everyone! I grew up poor, and sometimes my mom's card would decline. And I remember every single time distinctly. And I remember the kind people who would occasionally give a dollar or two so our family could afford to eat. And a while ago I was at dollar tree with my boyfriend and our other friend, and there was a mom checking out before us with her special needs son. He had been...

Disconnect

By Joseph J. Mazzella on May 11, 2026 / 735 views

I hope this new story of mine helps to get your week off to a quiet and peaceful start. God bless you always. KABOOM! “Joey! Disconnect that TV right now!” I was a boy watching a rerun of Gilligan’s Island in our home in the 1970s. It was a warm, summer afternoon but suddenly a storm rolled in. With that first flash of lightening and crack of thunder my Mom ordered me to...