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All Around Us

2,973 views | Posted by Joseph J. Mazzella on January 21, 2019

Miracles come in moments. Sometimes they save our lives. Sometimes they change our lives. Sometimes they offer us insight. And sometimes they give us a gentle reminder and the strength to go on. The scene of this minor miracle takes place in the living room of my house under an old, broken ceiling fan with a little glass angel hanging from...

I saved a life by shoveling

2,499 views | Posted by A friend on January 21, 2019

My neighbor is a paramedic, him and his wife are some of the nicest people I have ever met. A few years back we started this sort of "favour war" where one of us would do something for the other, such as shovel their driveway or help them build a shed, and next time the other would try to top it with another favour. Yesterday...

Today I learned to never judge a book by its cover

2,483 views | Posted by A friend on January 19, 2019

I am a 27 year old trying to go back to college after a long break from any formal schooling. I am taking a college algebra class and struggling to keep up. I sit behind a young man who upon first glance looks like a thug or overall someone I would never think would be able to help me learn algebra. I was dead wrong. Today in class we were...

A card I'll never forget

2,312 views | Posted by A friend on January 28, 2019

When I was in high school I remember just having a bad day. (Looking back on it as an adult I suffer from depression and it probably was related). I went to boarding school up north and I was in my 3rd period science class. I don't what set me off, but I just bursted out crying. I got up and left the classroom, my teacher saw...

My boss 'mommed' me and ill never forget it

1,817 views | Posted by A friend on January 28, 2019

I don't often eat lunch at work, and tend to just work through the day and eat dinner when I get home. I was having a bad day, it was around 4pm and I was struggling to make things happen. My boss, a wonderful lady, saw this and said "you ok?”. I said yeah, I'm just struggling a little right now because of x, y,...

Homeless guy gave me what he could

1,816 views | Posted by A friend on January 19, 2019

I gave a young homeless guy a couple of quid in Glasgow. I don't normally give money but it was just what I had in my pocket and there was something about this dude that just looked sad. Got chatting for a wee while and he told me about his days and nights - someone had soaked his sleeping bag on purpose and he'd spent the...

This message from a dog owner to his best friend

1,776 views | Posted by furdom_ on January 26, 2019

I've had you since you were a month old and didn’t have any teeth. I remember the sleepless nights during the first few weeks. How I had to turn your puppy food into mush with milk. How I'd make a perfect little cozy bed for you, but you'd snuggle into me, falling asleep. How we grew up learning how to communicate with each...

Strangers helping me out

1,686 views | Posted by A friend on January 19, 2019

So, this happened just few minutes ago. I'm currently visiting Rome and had to go somewhere by metro. Unfortunately, I didn't realise that the machine doesn't take notes or cards, and I didn't have any change on my. So, I asked a British couple passing by if they could split a 10. They literally took 5 minutes to...

To anyone who needs this right now: I hope you forgive yourself for the person you had to be to get through

1,612 views | Posted by A friend on January 18, 2019

I hope you find it in you to forgive yourself for not having known how to cope with the world better. For being selfish, for hurting others while you were hurting. For making rash decisions because of temporary feelings that left permanent consequences. For subconsciously putting yourself through hard times because you thought you deserved...

A doctor's act of kindness

1,447 views | Posted by A friend on February 2, 2019

Tuesday morning my 5 year old woke up and his eye was extremely swollen and red. Like really bad. I took him to urgent care up the road and after being examined the doctor, she was very concerned. They prescribed antibiotics but said I needed to take him to the ophthalmologist right away. The one in my town didn’t have any...

Dinner is on me!

1,435 views | Posted by Ryan on February 7, 2019

A few years ago I had just gone through a long and difficult divorce. I was finally able to take my 9 month old daughter out (not just visit at mom's) with me and my 4 year old daughter. Al beit for limited times. On my way home from work I had picked up the girls from daycare. We stopped at the grocery story to grab something to cook...

Customer made my first day at a new job a bit better

1,405 views | Posted by Ellie on January 19, 2019

My boss was shadowing me at the register on my first day, and things were going okay but I was pretty nervous with her watching over my shoulder. Midway through my shift a customer comes up and recognises me from my previous job. I can’t remember her for the life of me, so I have no idea if our previous interaction(s) had...

Returning A Lost Purse

1,402 views | Posted by A friend on January 30, 2019

Someone drove 10 miles to deliver my purse home 2 days after I lost it. They didn’t take any of the money from it, and didn’t leave a name so I can’t thank them properly. So whoever you are, you are pretty hecking...

A Bit Of Warmth

1,234 views | Posted by Joseph J. Mazzella on February 5, 2019

It was a morning in January. The jet stream had dipped down causing the arctic cold to reach the mountains of my home. It was only 2 degrees outside but the wind chill made it feel like it was 15 below zero. Still, I was kneeling in the snow along side of my house trying to open a tiny door so I could get underneath it. I had forgotten to...

Have It Your Way

1,167 views | Posted by Jay Abington on February 2, 2019

I think one of the hardest things for me to do was take my little Jamie to her first few days of day care/preschool. Man it was a hart melting thing that no parent can do easily. The first day we pulled into the parking lot and when I looked at Jamie she starts to cry than I start to cry. As I put the truck in reverse I tell her...

A moment of kindness!

1,149 views | Posted by Anjali Mohapatra on February 7, 2019

Once, a lioness with her cub were moving around in the jungle searching for their prey. While coming out from the den, the baby asked her mother, 'Mother, why we are going out for prey when a deer is already at home? Let us eat it first, then we can search for the next.' The mother smiled and licked her child with love and...

Those little sunshine rays are finally touching me

1,000 views | Posted by A friend on January 18, 2019

After a failed marriage, the loss of all of my friends, depression, opioid, sleeping pill, and alcohol addiction, not working for four years, and sending out over 200 resumes in the last five months - - today I got a $60,000/year job in my field of a study. Today is a good day. I always make a wish when...

Food for thought

888 views | Posted by A friend on February 2, 2019

My little daughter loves our local bakers flan, and we go there every Friday together to celebrate the end of the school week and she is always super excited and sprints in first to see if there is any flan left. This week we arrived and there was a complete fresh baked flan. We were sitting there eating it and chatting with the...

Cashier looking out for a regular

866 views | Posted by Cord on February 2, 2019

I go to the same gas station everyday after work for beer and burritos. Today when I asked for my burritos the guy said "they're hot. I knew you'd be here so I made a fresh batch" and that's the most thoughtful thing anyone's done for me in...

My boss's boss

771 views | Posted by A friend on February 2, 2019

My boss caught wind that I'm not doing too great financially right now, and she told her boss that she'd like to help however she can. So today while I'm on lunch, her boss just casually strolls by and hands me a $20 for gas, telling me not to worry about paying him back. First time I've had to hold back...