The knock-on effects of your actions can spread kindness more widely as people read the positive news of what you have done.
“During our first term of university, we had a student in our close peer group who was in student halls and was only just making ends meet. Home could only support him so much. When needed, I supported him for two semesters so he could eat socially and not have the anxiety that goes with […]
“There were so many people in masks in the hospital today. Staff. Patients. Everywhere I looked – a masked person. I asked the surgeon about it, as also he and the med student were in masks, and the flu is rife again, and so its fantastic seeing how many people – including lots of the
“I picked up a colleague’s walking stick so she didn’t have to bend down for it.” As we always say, no act of kindness is too small to share. A big thank you to the person who sent this in to us. What tiny act of kindness do you remember seeing today? Jog your memory
“It’s a small thing but after picking up my daughter from pre-school we typically go to the bakery to get chouquettes (French pastry). I usually order three… and lately the lady from the bakery has been giving us LOTS of extra ones. The first time it happened I literally gasped… she said just smiled and
“I spent some time in hospital a few months back – under the care of neurology. After about four days of moping and keeping to myself (dissolving into solitude and headphones) – I started to chat with the other patients in my ward. Eventually chatting for hours with the person in the bed next to
“A lovely moment in 11yo’s table-tennis. He’d battled down from 10-2 down to 10-7 in the deciding set. He missed his shot and went to shake his opponent’s hand, but opponent said ‘no, that was a let’. Really sporting, and he went on to win the set 11-9. I told him I’d noticed that afterwards
“One of my elderly Mum’s neighbours drives her to do a big shop once a fortnight, which is kind enough, but in between, if she sees Mum walking to the bus stop she’ll offer her a lift instead, and often brings over ‘spare’ odds and ends of meals or cake. And when Mum had a
“New Friend arrived at my door wearing a mask, her glasses fogged from the cold, carrying a giant armful of branches. You need birds, she told me, and proceeded to the balcony, where she planted the branches in an empty pot. She hung a makeshift bird feeder (the lid of a plastic container) off the
“A small act but I appreciate it as a person living on Social Security. Aldi’s the grocery store charges $.25 for the use of their carts.. as I was walking toward the cart row a lady came up to me & said do you need a cart? as she was rolling hers from her car.
“I was in Asda in chocolate aisle and an old lady said ‘chocolate eclairs’ out loud to nobody in particular, so I showed her where they were. A little later on someone was looking for mint imperials and I pointed to where they were too. I don’t work there but I could spot them so
