Kindness Stories / Feel Good Stories

I Just Got A Sale On Etsy!

By Erin on September 17, 2014 / 6,185 views

A few years ago I lost my first and only ever full time job in mental health due to budget cuts. I loved that job and was very close to all of my clients and coworkers. Even with the high stress of the job working directly with adults with mental illnesses, I loved everyone there. After we shut down, I became depressed for several months so I took up a hobby. With the help of my husband, last year, we started a...

Bittersweet

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 16, 2014 / 8,970 views

If there is one thing I have learned over the years it is that life in this world is bittersweet. It always has been and it always will be. I realized this early on and everyday I see further evidence of it. It is something that we all just have to accept. When I was a boy I cherished my books and toys, but then I lost them all when our house burned down in the middle of the night. Growing up I loved the isolated...

Seeking For Happiness And Fighting With Myself

By Pam on September 15, 2014 / 6,767 views

I have been undergoing anxiety for nearly more than one year. It started in my 40's. I have also been a person who lived by ticking off my boxes and wanting to everything to be perfect. I had lost my mum at 16 and never mourned her death though. Always wanted to be strong and do things and achieve. I left my family and migrated to another country. Now I have a great family and job but keep looking worrying about...

Always Choose Kindness

By Tamerie on September 15, 2014 / 11,713 views

Words are powerful. They can build up, and they can tear down. A careless comment can profoundly hurt in ways the speaker never intended, or, perhaps, way worse is to purposely hurt another. For many years now, for as long as I can remember, I have never really cared what people think about me. As it is often said, your opinion about me is none of my business. And it should not matter what people say or think about...

Friendship Finds A Way

By Greg on September 12, 2014 / 8,448 views

When there is a will, there is a way. Caleb's buddy, Ike, missed him very much. I went to the kids room earlier today and played with Ike for a bit, and he asked how Caleb was doing, and so did Caleb's other friend Casey. We said our goodbyes and I headed back to Caleb's room. Ike rolled over in his wheelchair and knocked on the door because he wanted to say hello. But Caleb is unable to leave his room, so I...

When You Know You Are Loved

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 09, 2014 / 13,918 views

What do we all want in this life? The answer is simple. We want happiness. We may take many different paths to reach it, but happiness is the final destination we all are trying to reach. Many of us pursue it in things, work, and people. Others try to create it in what they think and do. Yet, happiness remains elusive. Like a butterfly it flies away each time you try to catch it, but can come and land on your...

Laundry Made Me Feel Better

By Lori on September 09, 2014 / 6,283 views

Tonight I was having a random mood I catch often when I can't really seem to pick myself up. I was finishing laundry and going to get it out of the dryer. As I retrieved the articles one by one, heat emanated from them and completely overtook me. It brought me good memories, of times when I was younger being at home, and helping my mom get the laundry out and take it to my room. Of the simple act of folding...

A School Girl's Strange Feeling Of Love

By Testen on September 08, 2014 / 8,484 views

“ We all long to be something You to me and I to you, Long to become the gaze that won’t be forgotten That’s how some relation last forever…….” It was during mid summer, when Elle’s yearly session started. That time, she was in grade 10 where classroom...

Small Gesture Can Make The Difference

By NIKI on September 05, 2014 / 8,905 views

Hi, I feel that small gesture can make the difference but for that you have to notice small things around you. If someone work for you & u give him some appreciation for his work it will boost his efficiency. If your mother cares about you at least you can take care of her small & basic need. A wife who is always there whatever you need at any point of time you can appreciate her or do small things that...

Look A Little Deeper

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 02, 2014 / 2,381 views

It was the middle of August and I was looking out on the first red leaves as Summer gave way to Fall here in the mountains of my home. I knew that soon the forests would be awash in glorious colors painted by God's own hand. The yellow leaves would be shining like the sun above them. The golds would be gleaming like priceless jewels. The reds would be radiating joy to everyone who gazed upon them. The oranges would...

A Tribute To My Grandmother

By Tiki on September 02, 2014 / 2,830 views

Out of anyone in my life, my grandmother is by far the one person who is always thinking about other people instead of herself. I come from a semi-Americanized Korean family and we pay tons of respect to our elders, but as the years go by, my grandparents haven't been getting as much recognition from the younger generations. It kind of makes me sad. My grandmother doesn't come off as the "sweet" type. I'll...

I Don't Know

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 27, 2014 / 2,409 views

Being an inspirational writer I get a lot of letters from readers asking a lot of questions that I can't answer. I have learned a lot of things in this life, but there are many things I don't know and may never know. I don't know why people have to die. I don't know why a disease will take one person's life and spare another's. I don't know how some people can rationalize hurting and humiliating others. I don't...

I Found Love In A Ring

By Drew on August 27, 2014 / 16,784 views

Two weeks after a hard break up, I had given up on love in general, and all the fairy tales I used to dream about while growing up, I had also given up on God himself for allowing a lot of bad things to happen with me...… my friends were trying to take me out every day so I don’t dwell into depression, so this night, I went out for dinner with a friend of mine, we finished eating, headed back to the car, passed...

My Best Man Speech

By Vlad on August 26, 2014 / 2,219 views

My brother was getting married and I was the best man of course. When he told me I needed to give a speech a few months ago... I freaked out. I didn't know what to say. I thought I would try to say something meaningful but I couldn't think of anything. So the ceremony goes on and they make it official. Pictures are being taken. Then we proceed to the dinner. So we start eating and the wedding coordinator whispers in...

The Love Monster

By Coach Rich Muller on August 24, 2014 / 10,977 views

There are many times throughout of lives that we can lose focus on the most important things in our lives and direct our attention on things that may seem more important. It was once said that the most important things in life aren't seen…the following story is a heartwarming illustration of this idea. -------------------- A few summers’s ago, a man decided to take his wife and his precious little 5 year...

Compassion

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 20, 2014 / 12,754 views

Compassion is such a wonderful thing. It is full of sympathy, empathy, love, goodness, kindness, and caring for others. We are all made by God to be people of compassion. Far too often, though, we fail the test. I myself have failed the compassion test more times than I care to remember. Yet, as I grow older and wiser I still strive daily to fill my soul with compassion and to share my compassion with everyone I can...

Struggles

By Merlan on August 18, 2014 / 13,700 views

I've been away from my family for almost all the time of my life.I learn how to be dependent and live in my own way.I,ve been a scholar almost all of my student life from high school years until my college years.I always look forward towards my future and my family always keep me motivated and they encourages me.I remember one time that my mother.When i help her in farm she tried to talk to me stating that"you...