Kindness Stories / Feel Good Stories

He Had No Idea It Was My Birthday - And That It Had Been A Tough Year

By A Friend on January 13, 2025 / 3,210 views

My husband and I had had a rough year - new baby, new puppy (yes, we were ambitious/clearly don’t like to sleep), new jobs, and a big cross-country move. We were stressed, money was tight, and we had no time to ourselves. But my birthday was upcoming, and I wanted to feel a little special. My husband reserved a new, hip restaurant at 5pm so baby could come, but we were nervous we might have...

A Woman Bought Me A Water To Make A Bottle, And Held My Baby While I Actually Made It

By A Friend on January 13, 2025 / 2,715 views

Yesterday I went sledding with some friends and family at golf course that had a restaurant/bar inside. My daughter is 6 months, and when she was starting to get cold I brought inside to warm up. When we sat down on a single chair, a woman offered to move off of a couch so we would have more room. After she warmed up, I called my husband to bring in the diaper bag so I could make her a...

The Most Heartwarming Random Act Of Kindness I've Witnessed At Work

By A Friend on January 10, 2025 / 3,709 views

This happened years ago, but it still warms my heart. I’m a bartender at a restaurant, and a lady comes in by herself and is having a drink before her meal. She says she wants to pay for a specific drink, but doesn’t want me to make it for her. She had me add a dirty grey goose martini with blue cheese olives to her tab. She then told me this is her first time in without her husband who...

Melting The Ice

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 08, 2025 / 3,955 views

It was the coldest part of January several years ago. The jet stream had dropped and an arctic blast had arrived from Canada. The overnight temperatures had dropped below zero and the raw northern wind made it feel even colder. I had left my water dripping the night before but it had still frozen in the pipes. I sat outside then near the opening where the water lines came out of the ground and up into the...

I Saw The Biggest Act Of Kindness From McAlister's Deli

By Melody on January 07, 2025 / 3,340 views

As all of you know it’s cold it’s rainy and you just want to stay at home curl up on your couch, and watch some TV but some of us do not have that privilege today. I saw the biggest act of kindness from Mcallister’s Deli in Jackson (TN) from the managers we had a little homeless man sitting on the patio wrapped up in plastic bags, trying to stay out of the cold weather and stay...

I Regularly Accost My Workplace With Tiny, Random Gifts And Acts Of Kindness And It Started A Little Kindness Revolution

By A Friend on January 06, 2025 / 3,686 views

I started working at a new company back in March. It’s one of those businesses where the needs of clients are constantly in opposition with the capacity of the employees and rarely is everyone on the same page. A reorganization was also happening right as I got there, and tensions were high. I decided to do something about it. I schemed and planned, and when the crowd strike IT blackout...

Two Days Of Beans

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 03, 2025 / 4,337 views

We didn’t have much when I was growing up but I never felt poor. In order to feed all of us we had four huge gardens that we harvested every year. Mom and Nana would can the vegetables and fill up every corner of the root cellar. We also raised pigs during the Summer to keep us in meat during the Winter. Even with all of this, though, sometimes we would need to stretch out the food by having two days of...

I Absolutely Lost It And Was In Tears

By Simone on January 02, 2025 / 3,432 views

We ate out for lunch today as a family. A very rare event as we don’t very often eat out due to how expensive it is with a family of 6. I had saved some $5 coupons from work I had received so we could get a short stack each. Imagine our surprise on walking out to be told someone had paid and taken care of our bill!! I absolutely lost it and was in tears. Thank...

Add Life To Your Days

By A Friend on December 30, 2024 / 6,084 views

"You can't add days to your life, but you can add life to your days." This quote is a powerful reminder to focus on the quality of the time we have rather than the quantity. Every moment is an opportunity to embrace joy, pursue passions, and connect deeply with others. It encourages us to live intentionally, finding meaning in even the simplest of experiences. While we may not control...

The Warmth Within

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 27, 2024 / 4,017 views

With Winter entering a particularly brutal cold stretch with temperatures dropping into the low teens every night and only reaching the 20's during the day, our electric furnace stopped working. I spent all day trying to reach a repairman only to find that they were overwhelmed with people in similar circumstances and it would be 8 days before someone could arrive here. I quickly went to the local hardware...

Well... That's A Wrapped!

By Rick E. on December 23, 2024 / 2,672 views

Very close to my home there is a shelter for homeless teen girls, every year for the last four years, I have reached out to the community to buy gifts for the young ladies who will be spending Christmas day at the shelter. I grew up in places like this, and I know from personal experience that Christmas can be the most painful time of year for homeless youth to be without family. Once...

A Message For The Holidays

By WB on December 20, 2024 / 3,448 views

I know current events can be scary, and that the financial outlay of the holidays can be intimidating and overwhelming. But please consider that regardless of what faith you may or may not possess, there is an inherent call to good and companionship in the air. With all the division, anger, and frustration bubbling up worldwide, this is an opportunity for a real break. Ignoring the calls especially...

A Christmas Gift For Mom

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 19, 2024 / 3,579 views

My first born child, JJ was supposed to be a Thanksgiving baby. It was 3 weeks later, however, when my wife went into labor. It was a dangerous delivery and in the end we had to have an emergency c-section before he was born on December 16th, just 3 days before our first wedding anniversary. Nine days later we drove to my Mom and Dad’s house for Christmas. My wife was still sore from her...

My Manager Got Me A New Pair Of Shoes

By A Friend on December 17, 2024 / 3,557 views

My manager got me a new pair of shoes after I mentioned my current pair had a hole in the bottom. I briefly mentioned in passing that my sneakers had a hole in the sole and he knows I walk and take the bus to work, this was on my desk this morning. He told me he was going to give them to me Friday for Christmas but wanted me to have them today since the weather was going to be...

Two Lovely People

By Katie on December 16, 2024 / 3,397 views

On Friday night, my 4-year-old face-planted in the food court of a shopping centre and banged her forehead quite badly. She was screaming the place down, and as we tried to comfort her and figure out what two do, two lovely people offered help. The first insisted we take her bottle of cold water to pop on our little one's bump, then the second went to the nearby juice shop and got us...

My Mother, On The Brink Of Homelessness, Stopping To Care For Homeless Man And His Dog

By A Friend on December 13, 2024 / 4,504 views

She has precancer, can't afford healthcare, lives in the run down camper with holes in the floor, and works herself to death for minimum wage. Yet she stops to give money and food to someone others avoid looking at. My mom is my hero, she goes to threw worst most unimaginable situations and still has the most pure kind heart I've ever met. Now she stops once a week to give him dog...

A Haunting Memory

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 12, 2024 / 4,126 views

At this festive time of the year when November turns to December and Christmas approaches, I am always haunted by a memory. It is a memory that hurts my heart and stabs my soul. Yet, I embrace it each year when it returns for the lesson it teaches me. It happened almost 20 years ago. My children were all teenagers. I had long abandoned trying to guess what they wanted for Christmas and instead each...