Kindness Stories / Feel Good Stories

Thank You To The Stranger Who Gave Me A Hug On The Victoria Line Today

By A Friend on September 26, 2026 / 2,395 views

I've been job hunting for months now. Today I found out that a job I thought I'd get fell through. On top of that, I did a trial shift for a few hours at a café last week, but they turned me down and refused to pay for the trial afterwards. All that pressure just built up, and on the train it hit me all at once. I was trying to hide my face and let the tears fall quietly, hoping it...

May I Please Have Some Water For My Baby's Formula?

By A Friend on September 25, 2026 / 805 views

This happened about 40 years ago. My wife and I were taking our 3+month old infant son from SE PA to Rochester, NY to see his grandparents. We had packed plenty of diapers, bottles, formula, and we thought, water for the 6 hour ride which was at night. So we're traveling Rt 15 which is direct to Rochester. But 40 years ago it was all 2 lane highway, not the still unfinished in one location 4...

I Started Painting At 40. One Year In, I Think I Finally Found My Thing

By Threshold_Guardian2 on September 24, 2026 / 2,497 views

I started drawing last year at 39 and found my way to oil painting around the time I turned 40. I had no idea it would become such an important part of my life. These are a couple of the paintings I’ve made along the way, and the little room where most of it happens. I spent a long time thinking you were supposed to figure out the important parts of yourself when you were...

My Friends Won’t Stop Gifting Me Banana Themed Tools

By ChiaEFX on September 23, 2026 / 2,285 views

A few years ago, my friend 3D printed a banana for scale (left) for me and it quickly became a staple on my social media. In the years since, my assistant gave me a banana wrench as a joke for my birthday. A friend gave me the most excellent retractable switch-banana. My married friends found the banana hat for me while vacationing in Hawaii. Another friend gave me...

See You Through It

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 23, 2026 / 2,239 views

Several weeks ago I contracted Lyme Disease. This is the disease you get from a tick bite that floods your body with a bacteria. Now I didn’t see or feel it when the tick bit me. The bull’s-eye rash that was supposed to appear didn’t. All I knew was I was feeling bad. I had chills, shakes, and bouts of sweats. I felt exhausted, fatigued, and in pain. My body ached, my joints hurt, and I even...

Father-Daughter Dance

By Jesska on September 22, 2026 / 2,263 views

At my high school graduation dinner. They called all the girls up for a father-daughter dance. I didn't have one so I sat at the table expecting to sit this one out. I got a tap on my shoulder and turned around to see my best friend's dad. He said he had room for two. He took us both up to dance. Had my first and only father-daughter...

A Stranger Offers A Ride To A Stressed Grandma

By Vonnie on September 21, 2026 / 2,370 views

Leaving a big swimming carnival at Sydney Olympic Park today, I was stressed about getting my two grandsons and all our backpacks, to the bus in time, to catch a train at Strathfield. I spotted a "taxi" (a bit like when cartoon characters see a live chicken imagining it to be a roast chicken). I was stressed and saw this car pull over to drop someone off. So I hurried up to him. When I...

Saved A Bird, Cried

By A Friend on September 19, 2026 / 2,435 views

My hubs called me out to the pool where a tiny bird was barely treading water. I got him out and kept him upright and warm in my hands for probably 30 while he calmed and dried out, eyes still closed. He finally fluffed out his wings and opened his eyes so I took him over to a bush and set him under it. He seemed to settle in so I left him be. I came back 10 later and found him up right,...

Midwest Kindness From Strangers Wowed European Students!

By A Friend on September 18, 2026 / 1,052 views

I volunteered as a counselor in a camp for kids with illness in the Midwest this summer, and a big chunk of the counselors are students from England, Ireland and Wales. We all went for lunch to Culver's, and were having conversations about being medical/premed students and learning about our European friend's experiences. An elderly gentlemen from a different booth came over and told us how...

My Teacher Made Me Cry Out Of Joy

By A Friend on September 17, 2026 / 2,679 views

I'm crying in the school restroom as I'm typing this. My mom got me my favorite rice with tofu for lunch, and I was getting pretty hungry and excited to eat it after fifth period. I grabbed my lunch, put it in the microwave, and as I was taking it out, I accidentally dropped my lunchbox onto one of the school's plates. The plate broke, and my entire lunch ended up on the...

Kind Man With A Cane

By Leann on September 16, 2026 / 2,687 views

Years ago I was homeless on the streets in the Pacific Northwest. I was married at the time, young and in love. Daily life was a struggle and we were both artist longing to do more art in life. Living with the day to day struggle homelessness brings we did not have the supplies we needed to create the art we loved. We were given a gift card for $150 to a local art store. We were so giddy,...

A Customer Made My Day

By A Friend on September 16, 2026 / 2,446 views

I work at a regional sub chain as a shift lead and just try to do my best, my goal in life is to make people smile and help where I can. It's why I work in customer service, specifically with food. If there is one thing all people love, it is food. So of course we get many people who order catering, which when they come in to place the order I like to walk them through all the steps...

The End Of Summer

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 15, 2026 / 2,242 views

I saw my first sign of the end of summer here today. As I walked underneath my Maple tree I saw the first few leaves had already changed from green to red and fallen to the ground. It reminded me of how fast this summer has flown by and how beautiful it has been. When I was a boy I hated this time of the year. It meant soon I would be trading in riding my bike and swimming at the local pool for once...

16 Years Ago, I Took A Terrifying 1% Chance. To My 18-year-old Self: Thank You

By A Friend on September 14, 2026 / 2,493 views

I was 18, a total computer nerd, and had literally never asked a girl out in my life. I was thrift shopping with my mom when I saw the cashier, and she was hands down the most beautiful person I’d ever seen. My biggest fear was rejection. I knew I had a 99% chance of getting crushed right in front of my own mom, but a terrifying clarity hit me: if I walked out of there quiet, I was going to...

Kindness I Received From A (normally) Mean Cat

By A Friend on September 11, 2026 / 2,796 views

This is a story from a couple decades ago. I was 16, hopeless, and living in an abusive home. One day I was home alone after school, with the only other creature in the house being Pebbles, my family's jerk of a cat. She was nasty, liked hiding under things and leaping out to claw and bite passing ankles. She hissed, she attacked if you were in her path. She was a mean cat, and she preferred not to be...

A Loving “Coincidence”

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 10, 2026 / 1,364 views

A recent storm had caused a tree to fall knocking down power lines across a road here. The guy holding the stop sign said it would be four hours before it was cleared. That meant all traffic had to be rerouted down a narrow, back country road that would take me 15 miles out of my way. Still, I decided to try it. As I started down it I was foolishly going the same speed as I would on the main road. Almost...

I Was Waiting For My Pharmacy To Open, But Then Decided To Nominate My Nurse For A Local Award

By A Friend on September 09, 2026 / 2,530 views

Just going to toss this out here today. I would like to encourage other people to let the people who make a difference in your life know exactly what they mean to you. ​ Really, you never know how much of a profoundly positive impact that could have on someone. I decided to tell one of my healthcare providers what I thought of him. ​ I was waiting near an area with feedback and...