Kindness Stories / Feel Good Stories

Man's Best Friend

By Ilan Herman on April 19, 2012 / 40,282 views

Short and bald, with a paunch and thick-rimmed glasses, Bill was a quiet man who welcomed solitude and enjoyed the company of books. Social activities that most people found exciting, he considered tedious. The only girlfriend Bill had ever had, accused him of fearing intimacy in his quest for solitude, and warned that if he continued behaving that way, he would die "a lonely old man." In self-defense, Bill insisted...

May Your Only Competition Be With Yourself

By Joseph Mazzella on April 17, 2012 / 4,790 views

I was running a few errands in my car the other day. The sun was out, the radio was playing, and I was singing along. The song was a joyful one and even my weak voice sounded good singing it. Then it happened, however. The sweet sound of the music ended and was replaced with the dreaded news break. I drove on while the announcer droned on. Gas prices were going higher again because of the competitive speculation on...

Do You Believe In Love At First Sight?

By Until... on April 16, 2012 / 4,381 views

I have to say for me, I've always believed it, in a fairy tale kind of way. You know, like the way you believe in Santa Claus or the story of Cinderella, etc..., and I have to admit that though I've become older, I gotta' tell you that I, in a small way still believe in those dreamy fairy tales, call me crazy, but I do! I mean even though I learned that my family was the actual (Santa Claus) I still believe, in that...

Peace Of Mind (For The Moment)

By Until... on April 16, 2012 / 3,411 views

Whenever I began to clean the house my routine is to turn on my husband's PS3 and play my music folder (which contains a great variety of artists, might I add) but just a moment ago I grabbed a seat to take a little break and as I was sitting, Chris Botti came on, the song, "Embraceable You" and it relaxed me and I had become so comfortable in my seat that my mind drifted away to a beautiful scene of a moment of...

Kane, A Lesson In Love

By Charles Steed on April 15, 2012 / 3,543 views

Long ago I learned a profound lesson about love. That lesson was powerful and it has stayed with me. The experience that held the message didn’t appear to be all that special – at least I didn’t think it was until much later, when I realized that it helped to shape who I’d become. The lesson came from a jumble of human emotions that included joy and remorse and tragedy and loyalty and sorrow and honor and...

Our New Family Member

By Laurie on April 15, 2012 / 3,503 views

We have a pit bull. We found him a few weeks ago, walking along the road in a rural area. He was jumping on cars, and we thought maybe his family was camping somewhere nearby, so we passed him by. A few hours later, on our return trip, he was still in the same place, again, trying to get folks to stop for him. When he saw us, he laid down in the middle of the road, so we were unable to get around him. We...

Life Is A Journey

By Sarah Freeman on April 15, 2012 / 5,830 views

Resting in the cold, stark, waiting room with a Band-Aid covering the vein on my arm, I watched the doctor mumbling words I could not hear to my mom. I assumed the results were in from my latest round of blood tests. It was the third time that week I had been in that waiting room, and I was getting both nervous and scared. No one likes to watch twenty-three vials of blood flowing from their veins. It gives one...

True Story

By Mir on April 14, 2012 / 9,198 views

A doctor entered the hospital in hurry after being called in for an urgent surgery. He answered the call asap, changed his clothes & went directly to the surgery block. He found the boy's father pacing in the hall waiting for the doctor. On seeing him, the dad yelled: "Why did you take all this time to come? Don't you know that my son's life is in danger? Don't you have any sense of responsibility?" The doctor...

My Barber

By S.t..mann on April 13, 2012 / 10,717 views

My Barber At the appointed time on the appointed day, my brothers and I went down to the barber. Wise. Handsome. Tall. Athletic. Strong, yet with the gentle touch and dexterous hands of a surgeon. To cut the hair on the far side of my head, he didn’t spin the stool, and he didn’t walk around the chair either. Rather, he snuggled my head over against his chest so he could reach over to the far...

Sense Of Time: Two Minutes To Quality Life

By Kimberly Burnham on April 13, 2012 / 2,707 views

Today a friend sent me a link to DoNothingFor2Minutes with a picture of a beautiful sunset. A little timer on it said, "do nothing for 2 minutes." A few seconds on the automatic timer had already counted down by the time I thought, "I meditate and do qigong so this will be easy." A peaceful and exquisitely calm feeling came over me as I felt my breathing deepen. Then I thought, "breathing deep is not doing...

A Hair Away From An Accident

By Kimberly Burnham on April 10, 2012 / 10,260 views

There are two reasons I am alive tonight. As the three of us left the retreat center this morning, we surrounded my forest green Honda Accord in a bubble of white light for the 300 mile journey from the Pearlstone Retreat center in Reisterstown, Maryland to my home in West Hartford, Connecticut. After breakfast, we hugged all our new friends - men and women from all over the world who had gathered for Christine...

You CAN See God

By Joseph J. Mazzella on April 10, 2012 / 7,050 views

I sat at my desk staring at the letter for a long time. It was written by a friend of mine who was going through some difficult times. It listed problem after problem and seemed full of despair. It ended with these words: "I would like to have faith, but I have always had a problem in believing in what I can’t see. You can’t see God, you know!" After awhile I still hadn’t thought of how to answer my...

Worse Of Humanity And The Best Of Humanity All In One Day.

By Marci on April 10, 2012 / 6,850 views

My girfriend's daughter was driving down a busy highway when she noticed a dog standing on the side of the road. It was very skinny and looked terrifed. She stopped the car and put the dog in with her. It was so happy to be there. She immediately took it to her vet and they said that the dog was 20 pounds underweight. Upon seeing the dog and hearing the story some customers all pitched in for the vet's bill. ...

God Was My Bulletproof Vest

By Rufus Bryant Jr on April 08, 2012 / 7,323 views

On September 26th, 2011, my cousin called and asked if I was still looking for a job. I had been out of work for almost a year, so I said, “Yes.” I went to PinPoint Recovery in Humble (Houston Area) that day, filled out my application and gave them my DL and Social Security information. They said it would be a few days before they got my record back and until then, they would have me riding night shift with my...

The First Day Of School

By Danny Paster on April 08, 2012 / 3,296 views

"Excuse me, but what's your name? The beautiful girl who Johnny had been stealing looks at all too frequently and blatantly throughout lunch from halfway across the cafeteria looked up at him from her seated position at her table. She had been eating with two other girls, but they had both just...

Poo It Forward

By Les on April 05, 2012 / 6,909 views

Sometimes hikers leave bags of poo on the side of the trail, thinking that they will come back for them. Unfortunately, they tend to forget. Unfortunately, I tend to forget. One day, I did just that. By the time I remembered, I was in my car and just about to head home. Sighing heavily from guilt, I headed back up about a quarter mile where I remembered leaving my icky package. It was gone. Someone had picked...

A Little Morning Music

By Joseph J. Mazzella on March 28, 2012 / 8,101 views

I walked out on my porch this morning to the wonderful sight of the sun rising over the mountains. I smiled as its golden beams lit up the clear, blue sky. My light jacket was unbuttoned, and the morning breeze felt warm and comforting. The trees were still bare of any buds, but I could feel a sense of the coming spring on this winter day. I breathed in the fresh air and thanked God for this glorious day to be...