The knock-on effects of your actions can spread kindness more widely as people read the positive news of what you have done.
“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
“I paid for a disabled veteran’s vet bill earlier this year when we saw him trying to figure out how to split it on multiple cards and would have needed to come back the next day after his daily debit card limit reset.” We share examples of kindness every single day to help remind you
“I went to a pharmacy to grab some co-codamol and happened to ask if they were also doing private flu jabs. They were so I filled out the form. The pharmacist took me in to do the jab and said they can give me an NHS one because I have long covid and have been
I was eating at a café in Richmond Park on a lovely day out with my friend. We were sitting next to the door and I noticed a man coming up to the door on crutches, so I leapt up to hold the door open for him. The small acts matter – what small act
Sharing accessibility tips and tricks is a great act of kindness, and that’s what Phil Creighton did on LinkedIn recently. He posted about 4 hearing aid users he’d spoken to who didn’t know about telecoils and also weren’t confident using the app for their hearing aids. When I mentioned that my mum had also struggled,
