These good news tales about the kindness of strangers are intended to be uplifting and give readers faith in humanity.
Celebrate kindness – kindness in a medical setting On Saturday I had to take my daughter to an appointment at an out of hours clinic at our local hospital. As we sat in the waiting room, I was struck by the kindness on display: There was a mum with a 2-year-old who had got the […]
Share kindness: Let someone in front of you when they’re in a rush. You know that thing when you’re in a supermarket queue and you can just tell that the person behind you is in a rush? They might be bouncing on the balls of their feel, checking their watch repeatedly or huffing and puffing.
Day 3: Amplify kindness: A joyful story of connection to make us all smile on a Friday afternoon. My friend, Debs, went for her covid booster this morning. She was given the Moderna vaccine. She got chatting to an Italian gentleman in the queue and they were reading through the possible side effects. He laughed
Sprout-related kindness – who knew?! In the supermarket last week my husband and I looked in vain for some sort of bag to put our sprouts in. Failing to find anything, we put 10 individual sprouts on the weighing scales and then into the trolley. (Clarification: we weighed them as a group, not individually 😆) Half-way
“I just wanted to make someone’s day happier!” I love this kindness story, shared by Beccie D’Cunha via LinkedIn. She explains, “I lost my wallet on Saturday night. I got this note through the door on Sunday. “The man who left me this note was cycling along when he spotted my driving licence in the
My friend took her 4-year-old grandson, O, to the beach near where they live the other day. They had a play and then had some chips 🍟 As is the way with British seaside weather, it was a bit rainy and chilly so they had their chips in a shelter. When O saw a toddler
This kindness story comes to us from my friend and business coach, the lovely Debs Henry-Pollard. “There is an ice cream van comes to my road every day in the summer and I have never used it. Last week, on a whim, I decided to go down and get a Magnum. “The van didn’t take
This story of kindness in today’s Guardian newspaper sums up exactly why I started Time for Kindness in the first place. Whilst in no way denying the unimaginable horror of the events in Afghanistan, there is an element of the story that illustrates just how kind many, many people are. We need to amplify these parts of
Another guinea pig related story, this time about the vet! My friend sent me this message about the kindness of vets and the difficult job they have to do. “Sadly we had to have one of our guinea pigs put to sleep after half-term. It was very upsetting for my older daughter as it was
My friend, Lucy, recently contacted me about something she described as a “lovely kindness experience”. I think sometimes we can take great customer service for granted, even as we complain bitterly when we don’t get it. So it was nice to hear about an experience described in these terms. “I had a long, messy problem
