63 Unexpectedly Heartwarming Moments Online That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
Wholesome images work, in part, because they remind us of this. They show connection in its simplest form. A hand held. A kindness given. Something in the brain responds to it as though it were our own, and this might just be the key to a long and happy life.
It sounds alarming, but it isn’t. Researchers believe it functions as a regulatory mechanism, preventing the brain from becoming so overwhelmed by positive emotion that it stops functioning. Your brain is protecting itself from an excess of joy, because it turns out, you CAN get too much of a good thing. Stay humble, folks!
The wholesome image fills that linguistic gap. It gives a moment of someone else’s happiness a form that can be shared, passed on, and experienced by people who were nowhere near it when it happened. This unnamed feeling travels, and it travels particularly well through a Reddit thread.
The images in this collection are not a cure for anything, nor are they pretending to be. They are just moments of something real and good, caught on camera by people who happened to be in the right place, and shared by an internet that occasionally, against all odds, gets it exactly right. So, remember, breathe and scroll slowly. Everything else can wait a few more minutes.
Which one of these images made you utter the loudest “awe”? Tell us in the comments!















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