17 Times People Proved That This World Is Full of Kindness

Sometimes good things come to us when we don’t expect them at all. The heroes of this article told about those who made their lives a little better. People with kind hearts restore our faith in humanity.

• When I was in 5th grade, I was in hospital, lying in intensive care. When I woke up, my mum put a stack of letters on my bed. It turned out that my teacher, who treated me very well, had asked my classmates to write letters of support to me instead of dictation. Then the letters were given to my parents.
  It happened almost 40 years ago, and I still keep them in a separate locker. © Overheard / Ideer
• At school, I had a friend, Pete. In 7th grade, I had a mishap: I suddenly got my period. I was wearing in a light denim skirt, so I couldn’t even get up from my desk.
  But Pete ran to the changing room, brought his windbreaker and gave it to me to tie it around my waist. I really appreciated it then. © Julka7775 / Pikabu
• I live in France. Once I came back to my home country, and it’s winter here, the time difference is 4 hours. I was travelling from a friend on the last bus and fell asleep.
  I woke up when the bus reached the end of the line. I asked the driver how to call a taxi here, and he said that I’d have to wait for the taxi for a long time. But he didn’t leave me.
  He asked me to wait at the stop while he drove the bus to the depot and took his car, and then he drove me to where I needed to go. On the way, we had a nice conversation, and he didn’t charge me any money, although I offered. © Svetlana Kadyrov / ADME

• I once went to Turkey on holidays with a crutch (I had bought a tour, but had a surgery earlier than expected). I was constantly stopped by locals offering to give me a lift, other tourists asked me where I was going, maybe they could buy what I needed. One man came up to me at the end of my holiday and said he was very happy that I felt better — he lived not far from the hotel and watched my recovery process. © Elena Makarova / ADME
• One winter, the snowplow had completely blocked my entire driveway. The snow drift was at least 4 feet high. I was struggling to move all the snow and a van pulls up.
  A couple and their 2 kids get out, snow shovels in hand, and they helped me dig out the driveway. They had come by to help one of my neighbors down the street and stopped to help me when they were leaving. I tried to give him some cash, but he wouldn’t take it. © LtColShinySides / Reddit
• When I was 8, my 3 brothers and I walked to this pond near our home. My mom was at work and my dad often left us to our own devices so no one knew where we were. Anyway, my older brother was 9, and my 2 younger brothers were 6 and 4. None of us knew how to swim, my parents had no money to give us lessons, and we were rarely around water, so they had never taught us themselves.
  When we got to the pond, my older brother said he was going to jump in. I kept asking him not to, but after a few minutes he did. And it was much deeper than he had thought. I watched in horror as he kept bobbing up and down, unable to get any footing and out of reach from us. He was drowning. Still makes me cry to think about it, and it has been almost 40 years since it happened.
  There was no one around us, I had my 2 little brothers by the hand, I was just screaming and crying and didn’t know what to do. Then he disappeared under the water, but a moment later, out of nowhere 2 men jumped out of the bushes, dove in the water, pulled my brother out, laid him on his side, and took off.
  I have no idea where they came from or what they had been doing, but they saved my brother’s life. Not a divine miracle, I guess, but very much a miracle for my family. © Amber333 / Quora

• When my oldest was a toddler, he went to daycare in the downtown area of our city. We took the bus, then the subway and then walked to daycare (didn’t have a car), then I’d get back on the subway for a few stops to go to work.
  One afternoon, it was pouring. I’m by myself, holding a 2-year-old, his backpack, my work bag and trying to book it 4 city blocks to the subway station. No hands left for an umbrella. A businessman (probably a high-priced lawyer, based on the area) walked us all the way to the entrance of the subway station, holding an umbrella over us the whole time. © elna_grasshopper / Reddit
• It was 2004, I was in 8th grade and my sister was in 5th grade class. I was home alone and a fire started in our apartment...
  We lived in the hotel for about 2 weeks, but we needed to find somewhere to live... My school teacher’s mom had just recently moved into a nursing home, and they were selling her house. He took it off the market, and we lived in that house rent-free for about 6 months. © Junebug1515 / Reddit
• I live in the city, but previously I worked outside the city. I used to take the bus to work, it ran every 40–50 minutes. One morning I go and see 300 feet away that the bus is already picking up passengers. I ran as fast as I could, but 60 feet away from me the bus just left.
  And here I was standing at the bus stop, then a car stopped next to me and the driver said, “Get on quickly, we’ll overtake it, and I’ll drop you off at the next one.” I had never hitchhiked before, but I decided to trust him. In the end, I met the bus at the next stop. © Terri93 / Pikabu

• I was in a cafe, drinking coffee. A guy walks by and silently puts a folded piece of paper on my table. The paper says, “I probably should be minding my own business, so if you don’t like this intrusion into your life, don’t read the note and just throw it away.”
  Of course, I unfolded it, and there it was in block letters, “You are wearing shoe covers, which you probably didn’t take off after visiting a medical clinic. If this is not a mistake, but a deliberate choice of clothing, I apologize for the inconvenience.” © adedas / Pikabu
• I’m an EMT. We were travelling with a team to a call, and stood at a traffic light. A car stopped nearby, and a man called me loudly from there. I lowered the window, expecting anything but a chocolate bar, and he said, “When you have time, have tea with it. Thanks for your work.” © Mnogoto4nik / Pikabu
• My boyfriend dumped me when I was pregnant, and then I went into labor prematurely. I didn’t even pack my bags to the maternity hospital, I was 2 months early. After I gave birth, a nurse came up to me and brought my mobile phone, saying, “Here, call your husband to bring things for you and the baby.”
  I was in tears, there was no one to call. My parents live in another region, my friend was away, my neighbor said she was busy without even listening, and my coworker couldn’t come because her daughter was ill.
  I called a girl with whom we used to lie in hospital together. So she called her husband from work, he bought everything and brought it to me. And every day they called and asked if we needed anything. © Overheard / Ideer

• I went to a photo studio to have my photo taken for the ID card. I fixed my looks in front of the mirror, and asked the female photographer:
  — Do I look okay?
  She replies:
  — You look marvelous!
  From now on, I will only take photos there. © Rembo813 / Pikabu
• About 15 years ago, we were renovating our flat, and my dad suddenly brought home a man from the street. We washed him, fed him, and then my dad decided to teach him how to do repairs. So we did the right thing and forgot about him.
  And after a while, this man came to us. He looked great — in an expensive suit, smelling of perfume. It turned out that he came to thank the father for everything he had done for him. © Overheard / Ideer
• We arrived at the seafront by car, and went for a walk. We came back and realized that we had forgotten to close the back window. And on the back seat, there was my backpack with documents and money. And I see that it’s not there anymore. My heart dropped.
  But suddenly I saw that the mat in the back seat was weirdly curvy. I lifted it up and there was my backpack underneath. And then we found a note under the window saying, “You didn’t close the back left window, I put your backpack under the mat.” I love people. © shevagro / Twitter

• Today in the shop I was putting my purchases in my backpack on the table behind the checkout, and next to me a boy of about 7 years old was playing the claw machine. He picked a toy up a few times, but it would fall down. And on the last try, it fell right on the side of the “exit.”
  The child was very upset. He’s standing there, his chin is quivering, obviously he had no more money. I had already put down my purchases, found some coins, put it in the machine and lowered the claw just behind the toy. When it was coming up, it hit the toy, and it fell out of the machine.
  I turn to the kid, and he’s already got tears in his eyes. I say with a smile, “Take it, why are you standing there?” I went home happy, it felt so good. It was the first time I bought a good portion of happiness with change. © NeFigura / Pikabu
• I had a cyst inside my ovaries that became incredibly painful out of nowhere. I was white as a sheet and managed to leave work and get to the pharmacy nearby. I was hunched over and even lying on the floor at certain times because I was in so much pain waiting in line.
  After I paid for whatever it was that I bought, a lady in line asked if I needed a ride anywhere. She took me to the urgent care clinic and even stayed with me to take me home. What an angel. © Unknown author / Reddit

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