Kindness Stories / Feel Good Stories

Yes You Can

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 01, 2017 / 7,377 views

A friend who was down in the dumps wrote me a letter a few weeks ago. His life was full of problems. His heart was full of worries. He was low on hope. He ended his letter to me with this question: “We can’t really change this crazy world we live in, can we?” I answered him immediately and started my own letter with these words: “Yes, we most certainly can!” I can still...

ALCOHOLISM - The Beautiful Gift Of Knowledge We Can Give Our Children

By Jodee Prouse on May 30, 2017 / 4,943 views

Inspiration comes in many forms, from many topics. It is estimated that there are over 250 million people worldwide that struggle with alcohol use disorder. That translates into over 1 billion loved ones directly impacted. People like you. People like me. A few weeks ago, celebrity Ben Affleck had the media going wild. While most people go to great lengths and efforts to hide the truth,...

Understanding Life! Part 2: Understanding Yourself!

By Anant Suri on May 30, 2017 / 5,177 views

Understanding yourself helps you Understand life better! We all spend so much of our time in knowing about Living and Non-Living things around us, for instance we know so much about our phones, we also spend time in knowing and reading about fictional characters in Game of thrones...' What we miss out is knowing the most important thing in our life..That is "YOU".. how many...

Smile Please

By Sonia Kaur on May 27, 2017 / 2,826 views

Smile please!!!! Because you look beautiful and everybody wants to look beautiful. Girls spend a lot of time and money in beauty parlor to enhance their beauty but become stingy in smiling. Who explains that smiling is the real beauty? The smiling face does not need a make up. You are beautiful, you are blessed, you are flourished, you are happy etc all the positive thoughts bring smile on the face. Smile...

Achieving Your Goals

By Job Lazarus Okello on May 27, 2017 / 5,703 views

Imagine a football match in which two teams are competing for a trophy, but there are no goal posts. Which of the teams will take the trophy? Obviously none! This can be likened to having no goal in life. The absence of the goal posts means the players cannot know the direction in which to kick the ball; because normally the ball is kicked in the direction of the opponents’ goal post. Like the...

The Starfish Story

By Loren Eiseley on May 25, 2017 / 13,544 views

One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking up and gently throwing things into the ocean. Approaching the boy he asked: "Young man, what are you doing?" The boy replied, Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them back, they'll die. The man laughed to himself and said,...

A Higher Love

By Joseph J. Mazzella on May 23, 2017 / 6,562 views

I can still remember the first time a girl broke up with me. I was just a teenager. I was riding that hormonal high that a young love brings. The sky seemed brighter. The clouds looked whiter. I went through my days with a silly grin on my face. I held up my Mom’s phone line with calls to my girlfriend that lasted for hours. Then suddenly she said that she didn’t want to see me any more. I was...

Dear Myself

By Sumyat Swezin on May 21, 2017 / 8,847 views

Dear Myself, Life is scary. One day you wake up feeling like you can take over the world, and the next day you wake up feeling like all you want to do is to lay in bed and hide from everything. People walk into your life, grab your hand, and lead you the most beautiful path you've known, but sometimes the same people let go of your hand without warning, and you become stranded at a place where...

Break Into Greatness

By Princewill Iliya on May 17, 2017 / 2,140 views

You cant change your condition until you start to get out of your comfort zone, change the way you think and change the way you do things. you are greater than where you are now , you can be better refuse to settle for less, think outside the box. There's greatness in you. Stop having excuses to want more or aspire to be successful, think big, try again and keep trying until you...

1000 Days Free From Heroin

By DisregardThisOrDont on May 17, 2017 / 4,983 views

Okay, so I know I have shared my recovery story before. However, 1000 days is a bench mark for any recovering addict and I want to celebrate. Now, it's not been exactly 1000 days sonce I've last quit heroin, but actually a bit more. Personally I feel as though my 36 days in jail and my time in rehab are "cheat days". So I'm officially celebrating my 1000 days free from heroin on my own...

God's World

By Joseph J. Mazzella on May 16, 2017 / 5,804 views

For a long time I wanted to live in a world of my own making. I carried this world around in my mind like a secret treasure and did all I could to bring it into reality. In my world I was famous for the things I wrote. I was on television, gave speeches, and was respected by all the great minds of this world. In my world I was rich beyond belief. I had money, mansions, cars, and boats. I went on vacations and...

Mother's Day Surprise

By Kay Heitsch on May 15, 2017 / 5,052 views

It was the day before Mother's Day. I was sitting in my usual spot spending alone time with the Lord. I looked up and noticed the little Mother's Day statue Todd had given me many years before. I had it on a shelf along with other memories of days gone by. It was hard to believe it had been 25 years ago that Todd had died in a car accident. As I sat in my chair lost in my memories I thought,...

All Roads Lead Home

By Joseph J. Mazzella on May 12, 2017 / 3,252 views

When I was a boy there were no smart phones, computers were something you saw on STAR TREK, and our television only got one channel clearly. Still, I was never bored. The fields, hills, and woodlands around my home were the perfect playground whose adventures were only limited by my imagination. I can remember once hiking to a nearby lake and slowly walking around it. At the backside of it I was amazed to find...

This Morning I Saw A Boy, Probably About 5 Years Old, Taking Out The Trash

By HW3 on May 12, 2017 / 6,315 views

I live in an apartment complex and was driving through the parking lot this morning when I saw a boy around 5 years old. He was carrying a trash bag over his shoulder while walking along the sidewalk on the way to the dumpster. He looked back at me about to pass him then looked forward and started running. I pulled up alongside him and he looked over to see if he was winning our spontaneous race. I put my car...

What's Your Secret To A Happy Life?

By Sunny Skyz on May 10, 2017 / 7,449 views

Someone asked "What's your "secret" to a happy life? What makes your days blissful?" on a forum. We thought this response was wonderful: I'm not annoyinglyI think I've got a higher level of life satisfaction than a lot of my friends. There are four things that I can put my finger on that I think I do a little differently than them (and a lot of people). Hope they...

When God Does Not Make Sense!

By Perez Okezuonu on May 10, 2017 / 2,837 views

My elder sister Ijeoma is my best friend. We've been through a lot together. Though some years apart, we grew up like twins. Growing up, she was my guardian Angel and defender; I was a delicate child. During our university days, she was a mother away from home. We shared the same housing facility. Ijey (as we fondly call her) got married after graduation, when she became pregnant, we were all...

You Alone Are Good Enough

By Annie G on May 10, 2017 / 5,332 views

I don't deal with change well. Actually, I would rather stay in the same place, with the same people for the rest of my life. Kind of in my own bubble. But life just doesn't work that way. I don't like to be pushed out of my comfort zone. It scares me to even fathom trying new things. But when I finally do, I find this new sense of identity and direction every time. It's a feeling I can't...