Things that restore your faith in society

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  • JenniferMary_9169
    JenniferMary_9169 Posts: 164
    random acts of kindness
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    When people pick up trash they see laying around in public instead of ignoring it. When someone stands up and offers their seat to an elderly person or pregnant lady.
  • VeeBethTris
    VeeBethTris Posts: 301 Member
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    ok... I cried.

    Ok good it wasn't just me.

    Beautiful story.
  • sammielealea
    sammielealea Posts: 245 Member
    The innocence of my children; watching them play and seeing how much they love each other.
    When my daughter was still an infant and I had to do errands alone with 2 small children, it was such an amazing feeling if a stranger offered to help if I was struggling with grocery bags, or held a door open.
    All of the stories on this thread :flowerforyou:
  • diodelcibo
    diodelcibo Posts: 2,564 Member
    Selfless good deeds.
  • CrazyTrackLady
    CrazyTrackLady Posts: 1,337 Member
    Hearing "Your daughter is wonderful and is welcome back to our house ANY TIME she wants. You two did a great job raising her" over and over again. Our daughter is 17.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    Seeing an elderly couple still in love... And being reminded that it does still sometimes work out.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Seeing an elderly couple still in love... And being reminded that it does still sometimes work out.

    Yes. My husband's grandfather was sick in December. In the hospital all he talked about was his wife. When he was semi conscious he would ask where was she, tell her to come in thinking she was in the other room(she was sick at home and not mobile). I left in tears worried he wouldn't get to see her again. He did, just before he passed. She just passed last week. She said life wasn't the same without him.
    When some of the nurses that looked after him found out she died, they wrote an incredibly beautiful card to the family about how much he talked about his wife and loved her, how much it touched them and how they were together again. The family photocopied it and gave it out to all of us. It was so beautiful. They were together 67 years.

    So I guess that's another one, people who take the time to tell you these things.
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    I love all the responses. :love: Could really use them today, thank you guys for this thread!

    This picture: which at first looks like a lover's romp admist dangerous conditions. But it was in the middle of a riot and the young woman had gotten knocked down and was injured and frightened.

    Her boyfriend ran out into the street to comfort her and help her get away. Someone behind the police snapped this stunning photo. It gives me the chills.

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  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Seeing an elderly couple still in love... And being reminded that it does still sometimes work out.

    I frequent the casino on my days off, which happen to be in the middle of the week, so a lot of times I'll be the youngest one in the group that rides the shuttle. I often see older couples holding hands and even sneaking kisses sometimes. It makes me giggle inside.
  • maiaroman18
    maiaroman18 Posts: 460 Member
    When I wave someone to merge in front of me in traffic or to go ahead at a 4-way stop, and they give me the thank you wave.
  • JenBrown0210
    JenBrown0210 Posts: 985 Member
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    ok... I cried.

    This made me cry.
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    When the cashier let's me slide on that .01
  • MrsBobaFett
    MrsBobaFett Posts: 802 Member
    When a young teenager holds a door open for you, they're not all little s*@t's after all!
  • lripson28
    lripson28 Posts: 213 Member
    Me too!
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    ok... I cried.

    Ok good it wasn't just me.
  • cordianet
    cordianet Posts: 534 Member
    Old men planting trees they know they'll never live to sit under.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    When you work fast food, they're really not paying you enough money to give a ****.
    In fact, one of the only upsides of the job is that nobody expects you to.

    So, for instance, if you're a delivery driver for Domino's, it's not like you have some close relationship with the people who greet you at the door.

    You probably don't even remember them, unless they keep opening the door nude.
    So, when delivery driver Susan Guy realized that a particular elderly woman had mysteriously stopped ordering pizzas, what reason did she even have to notice?

    Maybe somebody opened a Papa John's nearby. Maybe the lady went on a diet, maybe she died from eating all that ****ing pizza. But on a hunch, Guy jumped in her pizzamobile and, on her own time, drove out to the lady's house. She banged on the door.

    No answer. She banged on a window. Nothing.
    Finally she got a neighbor to call 911.
    Stop and think about how foolish she would have looked if she were wrong here. Maybe the lady was just on vacation, maybe she had just run out to the store, maybe she would be furious that a stupid pizza delivery driver was nosing into her business.

    But when the cops came and forced the door, there was the old lady, lying where she had fallen three days earlier, unable to get to a phone.

    No one else had checked on her, and no one else was going to. Except for pizza delivery woman Susan Guy, who had every right in the world to just shrug and go on with her day.

    Taken from: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-true-stories-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity/
  • SANDRA_F26
    SANDRA_F26 Posts: 180
    When my son was a little baby I was struggeling really hard was the end of the month and I had just enough for diapers and formula. I had made it to the store got what could afford got to register and my wallet was gone! I was so distraught and freaked out straight up in panic mode. This godsend of a women came out of nowhere put A 50.00 dollar bill in my hand and said " Its going to be ok god loves you he always will has never stopped and he wants you to have this and to be ok." talk about being speachless and flabbergasted. I never saw her again not once and if I had the chance to I dont think i could ever thank her enough. sometimes we need our faaith reenforced. She did that for me. Thank you random stranger GOD BLESS YOU!
  • Hexahedra
    Hexahedra Posts: 894 Member
    This:

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/29/100-bills-from-secret-santa-rain-down-on-sandy-hit-new-york-new-jersey/
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    When my son was a little baby I was struggeling really hard was the end of the month and I had just enough for diapers and formula. I had made it to the store got what could afford got to register and my wallet was gone! I was so distraught and freaked out straight up in panic mode. This godsend of a women came out of nowhere put A 50.00 dollar bill in my hand and said " Its going to be ok god loves you he always will has never stopped and he wants you to have this and to be ok." talk about being speachless and flabbergasted. I never saw her again not once and if I had the chance to I dont think i could ever thank her enough. sometimes we need our faaith reenforced. She did that for me. Thank you random stranger GOD BLESS YOU!

    :heart:
  • SANDRA_F26
    SANDRA_F26 Posts: 180
    When I was 19 I went down to mexico with my best friend and her fiance we drove down and I was going to fly back. things happened we ran out of money and I was STUCK IN MEXICO in nayaret/jalisco area!!!!! my friend ditched me I was well. . . . screwed. I had no money no food it was pretty scary. Eventually I was able to get in contact with my father whom sent me money to get home. Thro the whole ride on the bus I had this older gentlemen who always seemsed to be right around me when I got off the bus to have a ciggarette to eat or anything hed quietly stand off to the side yet he's always be around. as we came to the border in Tijauana we finally started to talk well tried my spanish is rough but not to bad and he had told me that he had over herd some men as we were bording the bus talking about all these horrible things they were going to do to the white girl once they had a chance and got her alone. . . . ya that be me and he said he would die before letting anyting happen to me. WOW talk about a living breathing angel Im convinced I probly wouldnt be here today if he hadnt been watching over me and protecting from the bad situation i had gotten myself in.
  • cindyhoney2
    cindyhoney2 Posts: 603 Member
    Watching kids chase bugs, lizards, or butterflies just to see them up close.

    parents who actually get off their phone when their child asks them to watch something.

    people who let someone with 3-4 items in a buggy go ahead of them.

    People singing and dancing to the radio in dead stopped traffic.

    Adults splashing in puddles

    This whole thread is awesome but all of the above suits me to a tee. I catch frogs, toads, bumble bees, preying mantis...I love nature. And I get lost in the music and I dance like nobody is watching. I had a lady in front of me at Kohl's the other week and she had coupons that she couldn't use so she gave them to me, it saved me over $15 (I only spent $60)
    When I see how good of a job my sisters are doing raising their kids to be kind caring people when we were raised so horribly, it makes my heart swell with pride. And I would add dancing in the rain too.
    Thanks for starting a thread worth reading Sandy! You Rick!
  • cindyhoney2
    cindyhoney2 Posts: 603 Member
    When I was 19 I went down to mexico with my best friend and her fiance we drove down and I was going to fly back. things happened we ran out of money and I was STUCK IN MEXICO in nayaret/jalisco area!!!!! my friend ditched me I was well. . . . screwed. I had no money no food it was pretty scary. Eventually I was able to get in contact with my father whom sent me money to get home. Thro the whole ride on the bus I had this older gentlemen who always seemsed to be right around me when I got off the bus to have a ciggarette to eat or anything hed quietly stand off to the side yet he's always be around. as we came to the border in Tijauana we finally started to talk well tried my spanish is rough but not to bad and he had told me that he had over herd some men as we were bording the bus talking about all these horrible things they were going to do to the white girl once they had a chance and got her alone. . . . ya that be me and he said he would die before letting anyting happen to me. WOW talk about a living breathing angel Im convinced I probly wouldnt be here today if he hadnt been watching over me and protecting from the bad situation i had gotten myself in.

    OMG I am so glad that things turned out the way they did...super scary!
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    When someone drops money and the person that picks it up actually gives it back.
  • nomorepizza2
    nomorepizza2 Posts: 85 Member
    Gangnam style!

    I know we're all sick of it now, but for a while there it seemed like the whole world had united to do a silly horsey dance!
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Gangnam style!

    I know we're all sick of it now, but for a while there it seemed like the whole world had united to do a silly horsey dance!

    I'll take silly and happy over hashing out all the worlds misdeeds.

    When your favorite song comes on and you start belting it out, only to realize your car window is down... Along with the person stopped next to you! :drinker:
  • muziclver
    muziclver Posts: 145 Member
    A couple months ago a boy from my youth group turned in a lost flash drive (I work at a university front desk). I looked on the flash drive and found who it belonged too. It belonged to a local pediatrician. I immediately contacted him to inform him it had been found and that we would hold it for him if he wanted to retrieve it. He shows up, SO thankful he got his flash drive back and wanted the name of the boy who turned it in. (I didn't know his name, so I just informed him we were in the same youth group so I would find out and let him know.) Then he looked at me and said, oh, you're in the same youth group as him? I said yes. He walks out to his car and returns with a $200 check to our youth group for this boy being honest and for me contacting him instead of just tossing it in a lost and found bin. Come to find out this flash drive hand years of autism research on it.

    Long story short, I was not looking for a reward out of this, and neither was the boy. We were only doing the right thing, but this man, he had no reason to reward us in such a way. I was speechless.
  • Brianna72994
    Brianna72994 Posts: 887
    People who give to others without expecting anything in return.


    My little Italian great-grandparents who are in their 90's, been married for over 60 years, and are still very much in love
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    A couple months ago a boy from my youth group turned in a lost flash drive (I work at a university front desk). I looked on the flash drive and found who it belonged too. It belonged to a local pediatrician. I immediately contacted him to inform him it had been found and that we would hold it for him if he wanted to retrieve it. He shows up, SO thankful he got his flash drive back and wanted the name of the boy who turned it in. (I didn't know his name, so I just informed him we were in the same youth group so I would find out and let him know.) Then he looked at me and said, oh, you're in the same youth group as him? I said yes. He walks out to his car and returns with a $200 check to our youth group for this boy being honest and for me contacting him instead of just tossing it in a lost and found bin. Come to find out this flash drive hand years of autism research on it.

    Long story short, I was not looking for a reward out of this, and neither was the boy. We were only doing the right thing, but this man, he had no reason to reward us in such a way. I was speechless.

    I love this **** and I love people that give! It's addicting and I wish I had more to give like that.
  • TesselCat
    TesselCat Posts: 74
    This entire thread has made me into a teary puddle. Stories with animals or kids always bring on the waterworks for me, but really any good deed tends to make my eyes water a little. :cry:

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