It’s easy to lose hope in humans, what with the constant debates and disagreements and insults we see daily on our social media.
But, out of the blue, kindness will reveal itself and hope will be restored, making you see that humans are not really the terrible species the worst of us would like you to think.
A Twitter user, @Nicole_Cliffe, shared a tweet asking that people share the kindest thing a stranger had done for or said to them, and the replies really shine a light on humanity.
From strangers giving up their convenience for the sake of others to strangers simply lending a listening ear, here are a few of kind things humans around the world do.
What is the kindest thing a stranger has done or said to you?
— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) March 4, 2019
Oh, and once someone ran me off the road into a snowdrift and I couldn’t get out and no one stopped for EVER until a Latino couple with a baby did, and insisted on staying with me until the tow truck came. They did not speak English. They gave me some soup from a Thermos.
— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) March 4, 2019
[suicide tw]
Getting off the Subway in Toronto, I stopped for a minute to stare at the big suicide prevention hotline poster. I have a long history of dealing with That Stuff, but was okay, just reflecting–but this elderly Somali man saw me staring…
— elaine marilyse: art school bitch (@ourladyofcoffee) March 4, 2019
He came up to me and with the GENTLEST VOICE IN THE WHOLE WORLD asked me if I was okay, if there was anything bothering me, and if there was anything that I wanted to talk about.
— elaine marilyse: art school bitch (@ourladyofcoffee) March 4, 2019
When I was married to my first husband, I had a year-old baby and it was Christmas, and I was flying Delta from Montgomery AL to Columbus OH. Ex was deployed in the UAE and I was tired and depressed and a mess. The flights got delayed due to snow, then cancelled.
— Elizabeth Sampat (@twoscooters) March 4, 2019
We ended up sitting around the gate sharing sob stories. One guy was in the army and headed home post-deployment for Christmas to see his little girl. We got to chatting and he was very kind.
Then the announcements: a bunch of people got seats for the next flight, but not me.
— Elizabeth Sampat (@twoscooters) March 4, 2019
My tired daughter was crying; I kept it together and was barely not crying with her. Then the airline rep called my name and gave me a ticket.
Army guy gave up his seat for me. I tried to insist he take it to see his family: “Any military husband would do the same for my wife.”
— Elizabeth Sampat (@twoscooters) March 4, 2019
I was able to spend Christmas with my family. He didn’t.
I’m still choked up about this 15 years later.
— Elizabeth Sampat (@twoscooters) March 4, 2019
Dude in truck honked at me at intersection while I waited for older woman to cross street. I gave him the finger. He honked again. I gave big middle finger wave. He followed me to parking lot. Blocked my car. I got out ready to throw. He got out. HUGE MAN. I thought I’m dead. 1/2
— Paul Bae (@MrPaulBae) March 4, 2019
He put out his hand to shake. Explained he honked but noticed his error when he saw the woman so honked again to say sorry. He followed me to personally apologize so he wouldn’t ruin my day. We shook hands. Changed me forever. And I was glad he didn’t waste me. 2/2
— Paul Bae (@MrPaulBae) March 4, 2019
Oh God I can’t even tell this story and not cry.
I used to manage an LGBT bookstore, when bookstores were still a thing. One night, a caller says he thinks he might be gay and is considering self-harm. We were not a crisis center!
But as long as we’re talking, he’s safe, right?— 💁🏼♂️ (@TweetChizone) March 4, 2019
So I talk to this guy and I answer questions, and I try to be encouraging and I’m maybe sounding a little frantic and I’m definitely ignoring the 4-5 customers in the store, and this angel of a woman puts her hand on my shoulder and asks for the phone.
“My turn,” she says.— 💁🏼♂️ (@TweetChizone) March 4, 2019
And SHE, this 50-something lesbian talks to this stranger on the phone. And a LINE FORMS BEHIND HER. Every customer in that store knows that call, knows that feeling, and every person takes a turn talking to that man.
That story comforts me so much to this day.— 💁🏼♂️ (@TweetChizone) March 4, 2019
I went to a witchy shop on my 21rst b’day and talked to the owner about how I’d just been feeling inadequate. As I left, a woman came over, apologized for eavesdropping, and put a piece of pink quartz in my hand. “I know you think you’re a failure,” she said, “but you aren’t.”
— Emma Bolden (@emmabo) March 4, 2019
She said she’d bought me the quartz so I’d remember that, and that a stranger believed in me enough to give it to me so I’d learn how to believe in myself. I just bawled because I really did feel like a failure. 17 years later, that quartz is still in my purse every day.
— Emma Bolden (@emmabo) March 4, 2019
I was 8 and at the park district pool and boys were making fun of me for being fat and as I started walking away crying this gorgeous college-age woman sprung to my defense and got them kicked out and then she had me come over to hang out with her gorgeous coed friends
— rachel (@madamradams) March 4, 2019
They were so sweet and patient with me. Who was like. Deeply anxious and needy and abused and unloved and all sorts of things. But they just shared their tab and trashy magazines and painted my nails blue and told me I was pretty and they liked my bathing suit.
— rachel (@madamradams) March 4, 2019
A stranger stopped me from jumping from an overpass over the autobahn when I had a stillborn. He listened. He let me cry as much as I needed. Than he told me that he doesn’t understand why bad things happen to some, but to keep hope that things will get better. He was right.
— I Swear I’m Gods own sitcom (@Shuff154Lea) March 4, 2019
When my friend died I had to speak to homicide cops, when they were done the detective put me in a car to drive me home. Told me to reach in the seat pocket and take a swig of the jameson he had hidden in there. It helped more than I could have imagined, made me feel human again.
— Chris Calogero (@RealChrisCal) March 4, 2019
my first summer in L.A., my transmission went out on the 134 Freeway. No smartphones yet, and I had no idea where I was or what to do. A dad with three kids (all in car seats) saw me crying, pulled over, called AAA and stayed with me to calm me down until the tow truck got there.
— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) March 4, 2019
I was stranded in an airport alone when I was 17 after my connection was cancelled, I was clearly distressed and needed my mom. This woman came over and asked if she could give me a hug, and I just bawled into her arms, and she told me it would be ok. I’ll never forget that.
— Rebecca Kalant (@rebecca_eh) March 4, 2019
It wasn’t directed at me, but I’ll never forget the day after the 2016 election, when everyone in NYC was walking around looking like someone had died, and a mariachi band on my subway greeted the two women in hijab with “assailum alaikum!” before starting to play.
— Yonit Friedman 🔥 (@yonitrose) March 4, 2019
I saw a really amazing side of NYC after the 2016 election. I sobbed on the subway coming home from the Javits Center wearing my Hillary volunteer badge that night and had so many New Yorkers give me a pat on the back, a knowing nod, even a hug.
— ella dawson (@brosandprose) March 4, 2019
I had my first panic attack in the bathroom at Sea Tac. A woman approached me asked if I needed anything. I jokingly said “a xanax” she said okay. Came back with 2 xanax and a banana. Gave me her business class seat and took my economy. I cry when I think about her
— Katie (@Kaytease_24) March 4, 2019
I’ve experienced so so so much kindness from strangers but I think a lot about this woman who gave me tissues when I was crying uncontrollably on the train on my way to work. I was trying so hard to keep it together and everyone else was looking away and she looked right at me.
— danielle tcholakian (@danielleiat) March 4, 2019
and she handed me the tissues and I took one and went to hand the pack back and she said to keep them and I wanted to say thank you but I couldn’t because I was crying so hard and it was so embarrassing and she said, “we’ve all been there, crying on the train. it fucking sucks.”
— danielle tcholakian (@danielleiat) March 4, 2019
and then before she got off she said, “whatever’s wrong, it WILL get better. that doesn’t mean anything right now of course. right now it fucking sucks. but it really will.” she was this regular business-casual lady but she was a fucking hero to me. I think about her a lot.
— danielle tcholakian (@danielleiat) March 4, 2019
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