Kindness Stories / Feel Good Stories

A True Story About Bruce Lee Running With A Friend

By Chris on December 11, 2014 / 6,393 views

Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We'd run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile. So this morning he said to me, "We're going to go five." I said, "Bruce, I can't go five. I'm a hell of a lot older than you are, and I can't do five." He said, "When we get to three, we'll shift gears and it's only two more and you'll do it." I...

Two Years After Breaking Out Of An Emotionally Abusive Relationship, Here I Am

By Danica on December 09, 2014 / 1,919 views

This is not a male bashing story, nor a story of gender. This is simply a story of one human being overcoming obstacles. I just so happen to be a woman who dated a man. So everyone chill your pants. I fell in love with a guy. He asked me to give up everything to move with him to a very secluded town, so that he can go to college for his specific degree. This place was incredibly from my life, my school, my family...

Erasing The Evidence

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 09, 2014 / 5,199 views

I woke up in the middle of the night with a start. My aging and aching back had jolted me awake with a sharp pain. I got up and stretched in the dark until it eased, laid back down again, and shut my eyes. I couldn't go back to sleep, though. Finally, I gave up and switched on the television. One of those early morning infomercials was on. Two women were going on and on about a new product that hid the wrinkles...

CHRISTOS THE OLD GREEK - A Tale From The Kalderimi

By Audrey Wilson on December 08, 2014 / 4,540 views

That Saturday it was really hot. Too hot to clean the paths, but we did it anyway. The noise from the cicadas in the olive trees surrounding us was deafening. I could hardly breathe. Sweat gushed from my face, my T-shirt was soaking wet and my hair looked as if I’d just stepped out of the shower. I stopped pulling the weeds from between the old stones and stretched my painful back. ‘You should take a...

Mid-Mid-Life Crisis

By Jodi-Ann E. M. Morgan on December 05, 2014 / 2,359 views

Did you ever wish you could hear God’s voice, like Samuel did when he was under the tutelage of Eli? I sure have; I have so many questions about life. What is my purpose here? Who am I to become? Am I on the right path to happiness? Recently, I have also been questioning where I am in my life right now. Being a prisoner of my thoughts I often find myself locked up behind bars of emotional turmoil and...

The Smallest Miracle

By Arleen Simmonds on December 05, 2014 / 5,962 views

THE SMALLEST MIRACLE One Thursday in December (2000), Jonah, my then three year old grandson, and I were hanging out in what was then the Thompson Park Mall in Kamloops, B.C. Canada. We were refugees from the toxic fumes of a bath tub being re coated. What a time of year to do it! It was freezing cold outside and stinky and cold inside due to having windows open etc. Jonah has bad...

Santa Is Coming

By Amy Chen on December 04, 2014 / 5,151 views

I am often asked for things, on a daily basis in fact. These are all types of things, from sharing a story to making a donation, to helping pay rent. I am not complaining, I am just stating the facts. I wish I were independently wealthy, I wish I had more free time to help people, but until that day comes I will do what I can, when I can. Why? You may ask. If I am not wealthy, and have little spare time? The answer...

The Real Winner

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 03, 2014 / 6,232 views

I switched off the morning news today while I sipped my morning coffee. The constant chatter about sports stars, celebrities, billionaires, and politicians had numbed my ears and left a bad taste in my mouth. I didn't really care to hear anymore about what this world considers winners. Instead, I gazed out my kitchen window and thought about the true winners in this life. I was sure too that Heaven was smiling down...

A Homeless Man Made Me Happier Than I Made Him

By Athena on December 02, 2014 / 2,108 views

There is a corner not far from my house by a gas station and freeway. 9 times out of 10 there will be a homeless person there with a sign. I always try to at least send a smile and not "look through" the homeless. Well today that smile prompted him to walk up to my window and ask for cash so he could rent a room tonight. I shook my head no and motioned that I didn't have an money on me. I typically won't give out...

Love

By Mantu Babedi on December 01, 2014 / 6,299 views

If you know the meaning of love you are not likely to have many questions, in the understanding of what love is, you will never be worried and if you have heard what love is all about You would not fall in love Because when falling in love you are building a house you will live in tomorrow. When you say I love you, know you are making and building an emotional contract that doesn’t have a...

Beggar's Decision

By Dr. Sunil Ji Garg on November 30, 2014 / 7,318 views

The story simply begins like this. One day I and my uncle, who visited me from Mumbai, were out on a morning walk. It was about 8.00 A.M. in the morning. Yes, from morning walk's angle it was rather late. But it was the right time for beggars on the street to start their day of struggle. So it was quite normal when a beggar come near us and asked for some money. My uncle, who is a retired soft-hearted person,...

37 Things I Did When I Turned 37

By Grace C on November 30, 2014 / 5,483 views

This summer when I turned 37, I asked myself what I did this year - what I have contributed? what value have I added? Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot to say for myself other than I go to work, go home, watch t.v., eat, sleep repeat. This cycle is one I've been repeating for as far back as I can remember and I decided that I had to change. I committed to myself that I would do 37 things that would change my life...

Guardian Angel

By Traci Jones on November 29, 2014 / 5,294 views

This is our 6 year old daughter Cora Jones. On November 10th she was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, she is the bravest kid around and even made a video with her dad she posted to YOUTUBE called Cora's Brave Adventures. As her parents we have been doing the best we can to make things normal in our new normal. We have been going through some very hard times but really putting up a great front for her and of course...

Tears And Laughter

By Joseph J. Mazzella on November 29, 2014 / 5,537 views

I am finding that my eyes are a little more moist these days. I seem to be tearing up from time to time. Now it isn't because I am sad. I am neither depressed nor stressed. Nothing bad has happened to me either. In fact, I find myself smiling and laughing more often too. The simple truth is that while my love and joy have grown over the years, my empathy has grown along with them. When I see an act of love,...

50 Rupees

By Amol A Sharma on November 29, 2014 / 5,152 views

It was Sunday morning. No one around. Streets were empty. Only trees, cars at parking, children playing cricket, but still busy restaurants, I wonder how. I entered the gate of my bank. Gunman was alert and standing at his usual place. I loved the bank staff as on every Sunday I used to visit my bank. Staff was always working seriously and had a no nonsense attitude... each one. My bank was open on Sunday... so I...

A Stupid Mistake

By Jai on November 29, 2014 / 5,635 views

It was a partial cloudy day with little drizzling in the air. I stood at a road side waiting for a cab so I could go to the Railway Station. Everything was going on just the way it was when suddenly I felt a voice beside me; it was a boy with tattered clothes and a face that surely seemed like it was never washed at all. I felt so abhorrent at that moment that I literally tried to pull my self away from that little...

An Unexpected Life Lesson From A Cab Driver

By Chris on November 26, 2014 / 8,188 views

A taxi driver taught me an unforgettable lesson in customer service and satisfaction. I realized that motivational speakers charge hundreds of dollars to share this kind of lessons to corporate staffs. However, it only costs me a $10 cab ride. I had a business trip to Dallas that time so my plan included a fast trip to and from the airport. A neat white cab pulled up and the taxi driver rushed to open the...