Today I Learned To Never Judge A Book By Its Cover

By A Friend on January 19, 2019 / 4,778 views

I am a 27 year old trying to go back to college after a long break from any formal schooling. I am taking a college algebra class and struggling to keep up. I sit behind a young man who upon first glance looks like a thug or overall someone I would never think would be able to help me learn algebra. I was dead wrong. Today in class we were learning linear regression which requires a lot of specific inputs on a...

Homeless Guy Gave Me What He Could

By A Friend on January 19, 2019 / 3,768 views

I gave a young homeless guy a couple of quid in Glasgow. I don't normally give money but it was just what I had in my pocket and there was something about this dude that just looked sad. Got chatting for a wee while and he told me about his days and nights - someone had soaked his sleeping bag on purpose and he'd spent the morning trying to dry it under the hand-dryer in...

Customer Made My First Day At A New Job A Bit Better

By Ellie on January 19, 2019 / 3,273 views

My boss was shadowing me at the register on my first day, and things were going okay but I was pretty nervous with her watching over my shoulder. Midway through my shift a customer comes up and recognises me from my previous job. I can’t remember her for the life of me, so I have no idea if our previous interaction(s) had been good, bad, or other. Lucky me, though, because she launches into a...

To Anyone Who Needs This Right Now: I Hope You Forgive Yourself For The Person You Had To Be To Get Through

By A Friend on January 18, 2019 / 4,386 views

I hope you find it in you to forgive yourself for not having known how to cope with the world better. For being selfish, for hurting others while you were hurting. For making rash decisions because of temporary feelings that left permanent consequences. For subconsciously putting yourself through hard times because you thought you deserved it. For not giving your 100% in everything you did. For not having...

Those Little Sunshine Rays Are Finally Touching Me

By A Friend on January 18, 2019 / 4,538 views

After a failed marriage, the loss of all of my friends, depression, opioid, sleeping pill, and alcohol addiction, not working for four years, and sending out over 200 resumes in the last five months - - today I got a $60,000/year job in my field of a study. Today is a good day. I always make a wish when the clock strikes 1:11, 2:22, 3:33, 4:44, 5:55, or 11:11. I alternate...

Snow Man

By A Friend on January 14, 2019 / 5,013 views

I live in an area that recently got a good amount of snow. Here I am, sitting on my couch watching YouTube when I get a knock on my door. Expecting an Amazon package, I look out the window but I don’t see a delivery vehicle. I’m not dressed to answer the door so I scramble to get dressed and answer the door. Standing outside is a man with a heavy coat, gloves, and a hat and he asks me...

It's Always Darkest Before The Dawn

By Chloe on January 11, 2019 / 4,441 views

By Chloe on January 11, 2019 / 4,441 views

3 years ago today I was taken into a psychiatric ward for the 1st time. I was lost, hopeless, consumed by the idea of ending my life. Today I walk into a psychiatric ward as a student mental health nurse for my first day of placement. Things change, they don't stay hard forever...

Learning ASL For A Stranger On The Train

By Wayne on January 10, 2019 / 4,426 views

This is a comment on a YouTube video tutorial for learning American Sign Language. "There is a guy who i see on my train every morning, he always sits alone, never speaks to anyone and never listens to music. around 8 days ago i noticed he was facetiming a friend and using signs. after he hung up he looked so sad, i tried to ask him if he was ok, but we could understand each-other. so...

Thankful Grains

By Rudolph Valentino on January 09, 2019 / 3,482 views

I remember ripping the bag open so badly, and so wrong, and not wanting to get caught by my mother, or my siblings. Whoever did that to the cereal bags in my home, didn't stop hearing that they ruined it, till the bag was finished. Some fell to the ground, kitchen sink, our dogs even sometimes got lucky with a few pieces of cereal in their bowls. Just when you think all that mess is done, you...

Throwing Snowballs

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 07, 2019 / 4,599 views

Whoosh! A snowball zoomed past my head. I bent over a snowdrift and packed one myself to throw back as quickly as I could. I stood up and took aim. Wham! Another snowball crashed into my skull sending me stumbling into the snowdrift. I could feel my feet slipping on the ice beneath them and suddenly found myself buried face first in the wet, heavy snow. It was a mid-winter's day. My Mom had...

I'm Doing It

By MJ on January 05, 2019 / 4,169 views

Three years ago, my ex-husband threw me out of our home with nothing but a duffle bag with a change of clothes and a plane ticket to my home state. His reasoning was because I was mentally ill and he was "tired of trying to fix me". I was homeless for a year before I found a home in a group home for the mentally ill. I spent a year and a half there before I moved into a supervised apartment. In...

My Office Gave Me A Christmas Miracle

By A Friend on January 05, 2019 / 3,442 views

I have been struggling as a single mom for a while. I got sober almost two years ago after a short relapse following 5 years of sobriety. I got a new job as an office manager for a real estate office almost 7 months ago and I love my job. I go there and give 110% every day. Things had been going well until a couple months ago. My kids' dad disappeared. Ended up going down a bad path of drugs...

Finding My Father Who Disappeared 64 Years Ago

By Rex Beach on January 02, 2019 / 4,446 views

When my parents separated in 1954 I was only 2 years old and I never saw my father again. My mother and her family kept information about my father and his family a secret from me for over half a century. In 2010 I began to search for my father through Ancestry.Com. However I learned he had died of cancer on August 6, 1999 in a hospital in Dallas, Texas. When I got my father's death...

Christopher Robin

By Rosinna Black on January 02, 2019 / 3,403 views

I lost my husband just over 2 years ago. He was older than me but gave me security and love for my two young children, after I had been through a horrendous marriage and divorce. We bought a thatched cottage, something we discovered we both had dreamt of. The name of the cottage was Christopher Robin, not after "Winnie the Pooh". We lived there for 25 years...

To Those Who Helped My Family In New Mexico

By A Friend on December 31, 2018 / 2,952 views

My family lives in Las Vegas, where I can barely remember the last time it snowed. We also didn't get the names of the men who helped us. In my parents BMW (my mom got a great deal on it) we had been driving to Albuquerque, New Mexico from Texas after a week of visiting family and friends after 15 years of not seeing them. On the road, we had begun to notice snow flurries and soon, as we got...

Sweet Seasons

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 27, 2018 / 4,496 views

Beep! Beep! Beep! I rolled over and turned off my alarm clock. It was still dark outside so I felt my way to the wall switch and turned on the light. I got dressed quickly because I knew both of my dogs would be eager to get outside for their morning walk. I reached over to grab a coat and stopped. It was technically still Fall but the weather here in the Appalachian mountains of my home didn't follow a...

HUGE Shootout To The Guy Who Paid For My Gas

By A Friend on December 27, 2018 / 3,343 views

I feel like I should tell you my entire life story and everything that happened in the last two months to completely understand how just amazing this is to me. But I won't, after my card got declined, I called my dad, who took the phone away from his face and cussed and yelled. I kept my cool in the gas station. This went on for a bit, causing everyone to look at me, I smiled and acted like I had...