r/kindness

Thank you, mister Rick ,for your help today, on Des Sources Boulevard .

I had a flat tire, I was with my grand son, who is 4 years old and this man, in a white Mercedes ,stoped and helped me. I mean he did everything.

Thank you from all my heart!

A very grateful grandma

I love you all.

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We live in a time when so many people accuse young people of being disrespectful. While there's always bad apples in every basket, there are also some great ones.

This just happened today.

We were at a local grocery store, as my wife was leaving one of the sensors on the cart she was pushing locked up.

She had one bag and a gallon of milk.

These two young ladies. (I'm guessing late teens to early twenties) offered to help her carry the stuff to the car.

PS. I had back surgery this year and am unable to walk around a grocery store or carry much without a lot of pain.

I was reminded of this quote, though I don't know the original source, after reading all of your stories today. Whether you were on the giving end of a random act of kindness or the receiving end, I know that all of you felt good.

Hey, my name is Dylan. I'm a single dad of 3 kids since their mother got hooked on drugs and left with some man almost a year ago. Now I'm doing my best. I get benefits, but not much because I have a job. Even though it doesn't pay much, it cuts into them deeply because of the state I'm living in, or, to be honest, it's probably like this in all of them.

I've been doing my best to raise my 3 babies on my own, but not having my family to help, or my brother, who died from a seizure in his sleep when I was supposed to be watching him, and my childhood best friend, who might as well have been my brother, who was suicidal and took his own life... I failed them both, and I don't want to fail my kids too.

But I'm failing financially. I lost my good job about 3 months ago after missing Easter because I got food poisoning, and I took whatever job I could get quickly, which doesn't pay much and has been cutting my hours. I live in a very rural area, and I'm having a hard time finding a job where I live.

I was in college, but I recently dropped out because I can't afford my Wi-Fi, and my phone service won't cut it for doing my schoolwork.

I just feel like a failure. Does anybody have any advice on how to get out of this? I just need to catch a break for once.

My lifelong best friend and I were born on the same day in the same hospital. In college, he ghosted me after getting close to my girlfriend, and it sent me into years of expecting the worst from people.

That bitterness didn't protect me. It just made me someone I didn't like. When I finally started choosing kindness and optimism again, my life slowly changed. Better job, better opportunities, and healthier relationships. People still disappoint me sometimes, but I'd rather be kind and get hurt once in a while than let bitterness define me.

As cliché as it sounds, kindness wins.

I have been tutoring a little girl since the beginning of the year. I have her brother over as well who plays with my nephew. I tutor her and sometimes him without him really realizing it. I have taken them a few places to have fun. Sometimes when the brother acts up, his mom tells him that he should always respect me because I'm a nice person. She has also said that to the little girl as well. Yesterday, my sister told me that their mom appreciates me because I have done more for her children than anyone in her family has with the exception of one of her parents. It made me feel good because you never know the small things that you do for people out of the kindness of your heart and people notice it.

Hi there! This is my first time on this sub. I’ve always considered myself a pretty kind and helpful person. But lately, I’ve had the strange feeling that I’m losing that inclination toward kindness—as if I just can't be bothered, or I tell myself that someone else is better suited than I am to be helpful.

I’m looking for a book that offers practical ways to become kinder in my daily life. Ideally, I’d like something that covers the science of empathy—how to cultivate it in everyday situations and how to overcome the biases that hold us back from acting. I’d also love some "suggestions" for acts of kindness—whether big or small—that are doable on a daily basis. I know I’m probably asking for a lot, but you never know, right? I hope this hasn't already been posted elsewhere.

Thanks in advance for your replies! :)

I try to be kind to people, and therefore I am devastated when someone is unkind to me. I’ve been told I’m hypersensitive, but maybe that’s why I wouldn’t do anything to anyone that I wouldn’t want done to me. This morning a “friend” commented unkindly to a post of mine on Facebook for all to see. Am I overreacting for feeling hurt and betrayed?

Doing laundry in the communal laundry room today. Someone had their stuff in for a good while like hours. I switched it over to dry and paid to run it and put my stuff in. Now I’m usually really good about setting timers and switching my stuff. But today I knocked out hard after an overnight shift. Upon waking up I RAN down to the laundry room feeling sooooo bad. When I got down there, my stuff was in the dryer, dried. The person who’s stuff I paid for to dry paid for my stuff to dry. Be kind. It pays. Faster than you think it will s sometimes :D