A collection of posts that show how kindness is an active pursuit. These positive stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.
There was an elderly lady coming down the stairs at my doctor’s surgery so I waited at the bottom before heading up. When she realised I was waiting for her, she said something about her knees, she seemed to feel she needed to justify being slow, so I just reassured her that there was no […]
I was on a train to Bramley and there were a couple of people doing some sort of survey of the passengers. The train guard came to find out how they were getting on and they mentioned they were planning to get off at the next station and get another train going back. He told
“My toddler son Ollie and I decided to make the most of the elusive sunshine and head out for a dog walk and play at Churchdown Park Recreation Ground in Gloucestershire. We were happily running about when Ollie took a tumble on the hard surface of the football/basketball pitch, landing on his forehead. Cue lots
“I lost my bank cards outside and a neighbour found them and tracked me down! They contact me on Facebook to say ‘Hi there, I live in … and I think I have found cards belonging to you on the road while out walking my dog. Let me know if they are yours.’ I hadn’t
“On a 4 hour flight with our children we chatted to a mum whose baby girl was really unsettled and crying lots. My friend Jess (pictured) offered her son’s animal toys and crayons and it helped the little girl feel better and stop crying. A small act of kindness in difficult circumstances made a world of
“There is an old gent, Javier, who lives at the bottom of my street who puts out rows of cut down water bottles with baby spider plants and rooted pothos cuttings in them with a sign on his front door that says ‘take one’. “ We spotted Madeleine share this on Mastodon and she kindly
“Thanks to Orion being such a super fussy cat, the Pet Pantry is picking up a donation of 2 big boxes of food he’s turned his nose up at! At least there will be many other cats who benefit from it.” This lovely example of everyday kindness was shared by Carolyn on Facebook and she’s
“Every night before they close, Mohamed and Fatima, the couple who run the fruit and vegetable shop two blocks from me, put boxes of slightly over-ripe produce out in front of their shop for poor and street people in my neighborhood to take.” We loved seeing this post from Madeline on Mastodon and thank you
“Our roof had a tile slip in the recent storms. The company who did our fascias 4 years ago happened to be working on our neighbour’s house. They just rang my door and said they would sort out the tile as they had their ladders. I didn’t ask and it was truly kind as it
“A lady came to the counter with a little girl behind her. The girl, unrelated to the lady, had a statue and the lady paid for it too. When I let the family know it was paid for the little girl was desperate to be able to spend her pocket money so she donated it
