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Random Old Lady’s Kind Words Made My Week, Possibly My Year So Far

By SPMTDegree on May 10, 2025 / 2,485 views

I definitely weigh too much. In years past I’ve strength trained and done cardio and the whole thing, but frankly I just never stuck to it enough, and just didn’t eat right. The result was just the old weight yo-yo. Lose a bunch, and then gain it all back. This year, I decided that “forget that, I’m gonna make it stick.” I laid out small but attainable goals for every...

Mom Has Daughter Give Up Some Easter Eggs For My Son

By Cwu007 on May 09, 2025 / 1,891 views

My town has an annual Easter egg hunt the day before Easter. It’s run by a local non profit organization. It’s a huge community event. They will divide up a local school’s grass field into sections. Each section has a designated age group to keep things fair. I have 2 children, 5M and 2F. My son was with my husband and I, my daughter was with her grandparents. The announcer sounds...

Surprised A Stranger A While Ago And Ended Up Ugly Crying

By Akillustrations2025 on May 08, 2025 / 2,150 views

I do custom pet portraits as a side gig. A while ago, I saw a heartfelt post by someone grieving their British Shorthair cat. The photos they shared and the way they described the cat’s personality just stayed with me. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. (I have also lost a cat in the past so could relate). So I decided to draw their cat. I didn’t tell them,...

Sharing Our Daily Bread

By Joseph J. Mazzella on May 07, 2025 / 2,363 views

Funny how a memory from 50 years ago can still shape your life and touch your heart. I was 7 or 8 years old. We were spending a week visiting my Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Richard at their home in Tennessee. My older brothers were off playing with neighborhood boys their own age and I was left alone. One day, though, I noticed a boy about my age playing outside of a worn, old house down the street...

He Thought A Group Of 'Scary Teens' Was Mocking Him, But They Were Doing The Opposite

By Sunny Skyz on May 07, 2025 / 2,413 views

This heartwarming story was submitted to The Guardian by a man named Richard for their "Kindness of Strangers" series. He shared how a painful injury led to an unexpected bond with a group of teenagers he had once...

Working At An Elementary School And The Kids Will Be Alright

By Ekt1509 on May 06, 2025 / 1,649 views

I work at an elementary school and yes kids can be terrors, but they also set an example of kindness that I think some of the adults here should follow. Just today we had a fifth grade boy stop in the middle of his recess game to help a first grader tie his shoes. A fourth grade girl brought me a crying injured kindergartner and took care of him and volunteered to take him to the nurse. A fifth...

The Sweetest Surprise: One Quarter At A Time

By Sunny Skyz on May 05, 2025 / 2,177 views

Here’s a heartwarming idea that proves small gestures can make a big impact — and bring big smiles. Someone online shared a simple habit that’s been spreading joy to random kids: leaving quarters in candy machines at stores or restaurants. “I like to leave quarters in the candy machines for little kids,” they wrote. “I’ll do it on the way into a...

The Simplest Act Of Kindness Can Often Be The Most Profound

By A Friend on May 02, 2025 / 2,423 views

Today I had an interesting interaction in the restroom at Walmart. I was coming out of a stall, and a very elderly lady (assume late 80's, early 90's) was coming in. I simply said, "Good morning." She took my hand in both of hers, and said, "Thank you for speaking to me." If you see an older person, don’t be shy—say hi. It might seem small to you,...

I’m A Custodian, And I Just Found This On My Closet Door

By A Friend on May 01, 2025 / 2,449 views

This person has an uncanny ability to walk through my stairwell whenever I am mopping or just finishing up. She’s always way more upset about it than I am lol. I always say something along the lines of, “this thing is made to be walked on” or “I’m just happy it was clean for 5 minutes”. This can be a thankless job, which is totally ok. I dont mind being in the...

Help Me Find The Lady Who Paid For My Groceries Tonight

By Randall Alexander on May 01, 2025 / 1,755 views

This wonderful act of kindness was posted to the Colwood Community Page on Facebook: Help me find the lady who paid for my groceries tonight at Save-On Foods on Sooke road at about 6:30 I'm pretty much a single...

A Million Miracles

By Joseph J. Mazzella on April 30, 2025 / 2,348 views

I woke up before the alarm went off this morning. I reached over to grab my clock and see what time it was only to have a furry head with a long nose get in the way. I petted my dog, Hank while he happily licked my hand. I decided to check the clock with the other hand only to have my other dog, Sweetie intercept it. I leaned down and touched my head to hers and she licked my nose through her under bite. I...

My Random Act Of Kindness Ended Up Being Just As Healing For Me As It Was For Her

By A Friend on April 30, 2025 / 2,053 views

Today at my workplace, a woman was buying some pink shorts. My boss and I were ringing her up and during chit chat we comment how pink was her color (she had a bright pink purse too) and she told us how pink was her mom’s favorite color. Then she got quiet and told us how her mom had just passed and she didn’t get to see her before she passed….. she started crying while trying to...

Accidentally Said 'Love You!' At The End Of A Call

By A Friend on April 28, 2025 / 2,491 views

Accidentally said "Love you!" at the end of a call with an important client yesterday. I heard him giggle as I hung up, and I was mortified. Today, I saw he emailed me...

The Dumbest, Silliest Random Act Of Kindness I Ever Performed. Pretending To Steal A Boys Breakfast At A Waffle House In Alabama

By A Friend on April 28, 2025 / 1,964 views

Man I love the Waffle House. Closest one to me is 45 min away, so when I'm road-tripping through the South (as currently), I stop there every morning. This morning I got my usual black coffee, Pecan Waffle and double order of smothered-covered-chunked-scattered. And I don't even eat Waffles, unless it's at the WH. Black coffee is all the breakfast I need. For the record, I am a white-haired man in...

Taking The Time To Donate

By Joseph J. Mazzella on April 25, 2025 / 1,721 views

The Red Cross called me the other day to cancel my next appointment to donate blood. It seems that you can only donate blood six times a year not every 56 days like I thought. I never knew this before. I had always missed at least one blood drive a year because of snowy roads or car trouble or being sick or appointments I couldn’t break. I felt a little better knowing that I probably wouldn’t have...

A Random Stranger Gave Me A $100 Bill And Disappeared

By A Friend on April 24, 2025 / 2,189 views

I (44 Female) went out to eat for lunch with my son, DIL and grandbaby on Saturday. We'd finished our food and we're just sitting around talking. My back was to the room so I didn't see this guy coming. He walked up to my table, laid down a folded $100 bill and said quickly, "Here I wanted you to have this." And literally ran away. I spun around and yelled "What?!...

I'll Never Forget Her Kindness

By A Friend on April 23, 2025 / 2,056 views

I was at the vet, waiting to be called to put the family lab down. We had her for 10 years and I was kind of her favorite- we had a real bond. Here I am, a 50 year old man, and I just start bawling. Everyone pretended not to notice as I audibly sobbed and hugged my girl. Some random lady came over and sat with me, held my hand and struck up a conversation about the t-shirt I was wearing....

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