Kindness Stories / Feel Good Stories

A Doctor's Act Of Kindness

By A Friend on February 02, 2019 / 4,415 views

Tuesday morning my 5 year old woke up and his eye was extremely swollen and red. Like really bad. I took him to urgent care up the road and after being examined the doctor, she was very concerned. They prescribed antibiotics but said I needed to take him to the ophthalmologist right away. The one in my town didn’t have any same day appointments but they were able to get me into one about 45...

Cashier Looking Out For A Regular

By Cord on February 02, 2019 / 3,433 views

I go to the same gas station everyday after work for beer and burritos. Today when I asked for my burritos the guy said "they're hot. I knew you'd be here so I made a fresh batch" and that's the most thoughtful thing anyone's done for me in...

My Boss's Boss

By A Friend on February 02, 2019 / 3,415 views

My boss caught wind that I'm not doing too great financially right now, and she told her boss that she'd like to help however she can. So today while I'm on lunch, her boss just casually strolls by and hands me a $20 for gas, telling me not to worry about paying him back. First time I've had to hold back tears of joy in quite a...

Food For Thought

By A Friend on February 02, 2019 / 3,816 views

My little daughter loves our local bakers flan, and we go there every Friday together to celebrate the end of the school week and she is always super excited and sprints in first to see if there is any flan left. This week we arrived and there was a complete fresh baked flan. We were sitting there eating it and chatting with the Baker (who is a great guy) and he brought over a big box and said he...

Returning A Lost Purse

By A Friend on January 30, 2019 / 4,361 views

Someone drove 10 miles to deliver my purse home 2 days after I lost it. They didn’t take any of the money from it, and didn’t leave a name so I can’t thank them properly. So whoever you are, you are pretty hecking...

A Card I'll Never Forget

By A Friend on January 28, 2019 / 5,019 views

When I was in high school I remember just having a bad day. (Looking back on it as an adult I suffer from depression and it probably was related). I went to boarding school up north and I was in my 3rd period science class. I don't what set me off, but I just bursted out crying. I got up and left the classroom, my teacher saw me but didn't try to stop me. Later that afternoon I...

My Boss 'mommed' Me And Ill Never Forget It

By A Friend on January 28, 2019 / 4,363 views

I don't often eat lunch at work, and tend to just work through the day and eat dinner when I get home. I was having a bad day, it was around 4pm and I was struggling to make things happen. My boss, a wonderful lady, saw this and said "you ok?”. I said yeah, I'm just struggling a little right now because of x, y, and z. Then she did something that shocked me, she said...

This Message From A Dog Owner To His Best Friend

By Furdom_ on January 26, 2019 / 4,288 views

I've had you since you were a month old and didn’t have any teeth. I remember the sleepless nights during the first few weeks. How I had to turn your puppy food into mush with milk. How I'd make a perfect little cozy bed for you, but you'd snuggle into me, falling asleep. How we grew up learning how to communicate with each other without a single word being spoken. I wonder where the 13 years...

All Around Us

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 21, 2019 / 6,521 views

Miracles come in moments. Sometimes they save our lives. Sometimes they change our lives. Sometimes they offer us insight. And sometimes they give us a gentle reminder and the strength to go on. The scene of this minor miracle takes place in the living room of my house under an old, broken ceiling fan with a little glass angel hanging from its pull string. My youngest son has a severe form of...

I Saved A Life By Shoveling

By A Friend on January 21, 2019 / 5,586 views

My neighbor is a paramedic, him and his wife are some of the nicest people I have ever met. A few years back we started this sort of "favour war" where one of us would do something for the other, such as shovel their driveway or help them build a shed, and next time the other would try to top it with another favour. Yesterday morning there was maybe 2 or 3 feet of snow on the ground (we live in a...

Strangers Helping Me Out

By A Friend on January 19, 2019 / 3,905 views

So, this happened just few minutes ago. I'm currently visiting Rome and had to go somewhere by metro. Unfortunately, I didn't realise that the machine doesn't take notes or cards, and I didn't have any change on my. So, I asked a British couple passing by if they could split a 10. They literally took 5 minutes to scrap whatever change they had to pay for my ticket. If you guys are...

Today I Learned To Never Judge A Book By Its Cover

By A Friend on January 19, 2019 / 5,242 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 / 4,178 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 / 3,711 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 / 4,833 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 / 5,348 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 / 5,479 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...