Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

First Time For Everything...

By Aileen on January 30, 2023 / 1,932 views

First time for everything. I never thought it would happen to me but it did. Kindness or as some may say paying it forward. I put some petrol in the car went to pay and the lady said 'I think you will have a great day'.  'Why?' I say. 'Because the lady in front of you has paid for your petrol.' My jaw dropped. I'm very...

Reflections

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 27, 2023 / 2,894 views

My daughter has a new app on her phone that can clear up and enhance old photographs. She used it to make copies of pictures from my old photo albums, brighten them up, and email them back to me. There were pictures of Mom, Dad, Nana, my brothers, me and my first dog Duke. Looking at them brought back so many loving, happy memories. I even put one on my laptop computer as my new screen saver. It is...

A Special Needs Trike

By A Friend on January 26, 2023 / 2,549 views

I recently posted my disabled daughters special needs Trike on marketplace for free as she had outgrown it and it was very expensive- I just wanted a child who was disadvantaged like my own to have the freedom most families/children take for granted. I had a family collect it a week ago, and we had a good chat about life and what not. We had a few tears together but we were all very excited for...

That's For Hayley

By Nadia on January 26, 2023 / 2,799 views

Years ago on a train on my way into city I noticed a family got on - 2 little girls, their Mom and mother’s friend. They had packed trolley bags, on their way to a destination where, from what it looked like, they were going to be there some days. The girls sat down next to an older gentleman. Down the ride one of the little girls started speaking to the man and most passengers within audible...

To The Beautiful Woman Who Just Paid For A $400

By Shanaye on January 23, 2023 / 2,540 views

To the beautiful woman who just paid for a $400 plus trolley full of groceries for a father and his two sons at the Karingal Aldi, you are a wonderful human and I hope that the kindness showed by you today, comes back to you tenfold! I felt helpless standing there watching his card decline a couple of times because I myself, am not in a position to cover his groceries and I was desperately wishing I...

Potato Pancakes

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 22, 2023 / 3,226 views

When I was a boy growing up we didn’t have much. Most of the clothes I wore were hand me downs from my two brothers. The books I read were old, worn, and dog-eared with stained, yellow pages. My toys were few and came only at Christmas or my birthday. We didn’t even buy that much at the grocery store because we raised so much of our food at home. We raised pigs for meat and had four HUGE vegetable...

People Change

By A Friend on January 18, 2023 / 2,962 views

I was bullied a lot in secondary school (11-18 years old for people who have different school systems). There was one main culprit, let's call him C. Over many years, this boy physically and verbally abused me every day. This went on for a long time. Eventually we left school, no idea what he went on to do, I think it was construction. Many years passed. One day I was walking to the supermarket,...

Little Things Count

By A Friend on January 17, 2023 / 2,766 views

Shout out to the stranger in the drive through who paid for my meal today. Not sure if you saw me crying behind you, or just felt like being kind, but you made my horrible day/week/month a little brighter. Also shoutout to the poor drive-through worker who had to deal with me as I cried of happiness over free French Fries...

Snow Fairy And A Kindly Urgent Care Doctor

By GM on January 16, 2023 / 3,065 views

Well I have two acts of kindness on my mind today...one was from several years ago. We were traveling home over the winter holidays by car and stopped to have supper. There was a big snow storm in the news but we were traveling south and the roads stayed clear for us for hours so we figured we'd beat the storm. By the time we were finished eating the temperatures had dropped to just below...

A Very Unexpected Show Of Kindness

By Sharn on January 13, 2023 / 3,140 views

By Sharn on January 13, 2023 / 3,140 views

Today a Woolworths employee gave me a bunch of flowers. A very unexpected show of kindness. Yes there is a story and it shows how simple words can make someone’s day better. Wind the clock back 3 years and I was going through chemo and radiation and pretty much feeling like …. Well you can imagine. The one thing I could do to help my family out was to do the groceries online. I would do...

On My Run This Morning, I Was Flagged Down By An Elderly Chinese Woman Waving Her Phone At Me

By Ezra on January 12, 2023 / 3,404 views

On my run this morning, I was flagged down by an elderly Chinese woman waving her phone at me speaking to me in Mandarin. She spoke no English at all. She was clearly lost and was trying to walk home (which would’ve been a 40 minute walk at least)… although I was mid circuit on my morning exercise- I knew that her reaching out had to take precedence. She showed me screen shots of maps...

You Never Know The Impact You Have On Someone

By Rita on January 11, 2023 / 2,856 views

You never know the impact you have on someone. I am not in a good place at the moment as I am grieving. For the past week I have struggled to even get out of bed. This morning I managed to get to the shops for some food, but was desperate to get back home again. I was dismayed to be approached by a fundraiser for G.O.S.H. My heart sank and I began to feel a little...

Body Aches And Tummy Grumbles

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 11, 2023 / 2,690 views

It was early January and my stomach was grumbling at me. It had grown used to all the extra food I had been eating during the holidays and wasn’t happy that I had gone back to my usual diet. “Hey!”, it yelled. “Where is my extra serving of turkey? I want another glass of eggnog! How about some more Christmas cookies and peanut butter candy?” While I tried to ignore the...

Restored My Faith In Humanity And Made My Day

By Teagan on January 09, 2023 / 2,498 views

Had a not-so-nice end to a beach day at Byron after being stung $120 for unknowingly reverse parking in a carpark at Clarke’s beach (instead of parking front-in) at a separate carpark area which I hadn’t realised had specific parking requirements enforced by the council. After I received the fine, my partner had caught and notified a few others that had also accidentally made the same...

My Hubby Was Inline Waiting To Pay For His Petrol

By Vicki on January 09, 2023 / 2,331 views

My hubby was inline waiting to pay for his petrol. A woman was trying to pay for hers but her cards were on her phone and her phone didn't have enough charge to bring them up. She was in a complete fluster as her kids were crying, man behind her was huffing & puffing, making the whole situation more overwhelming for her. Hubby, told her to not worry about it, take her kids and he...

People Can Be So Kind

By Andrea on January 06, 2023 / 2,592 views

After major surgery and then the dreaded virus took me down hubbie had his work cut out managing my care (whilst trying to stay well himself). Mentally I was quite despondent too with these setbacks. One neighbour dropped leftovers from their belated Christmas celebration then today hubbie looked out the front window to see the other neighbour mowing our grass verge (doing edges and...

Good Samaritans Exist If You Have Faith!

By Farah on January 06, 2023 / 2,325 views

On Tuesday, my husband and I were going on a birthday getaway staycation in the city (Sydney) to celebrate my birthday. At one of the stations about to enter the Metro, I accidentally left behind a very valuable bag. Not just valuable in price but very sentimental as it was one of the gifts my parents bought me when I became a Doctor a few years ago from Germany. It also had some valuable items...