Strangers’ Small Acts That Changed Lives Forever: Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
2. Once I was walking home from work and saw this little girl, probably like 8 or 9 years old standing on the sidewalk. She was alone, crying and looked distressed. I asked if she needed help and she told me that her band practice or whatever had ended early but she couldn’t call her mom to come pick her up because some bullies had stolen her cell phone. I live in a busy city and felt bad because people were just walking by and not helping her. Luckily she knew her mom’s number so I called her mom, explained the situation, gave her the phone so that she could talk to her mom and then waited there with her until her mom got there to pick her up.
I was crossing the street in between the crosswalks, so like at the middle of the block, and this much older Chinese man who was doing food delivery on a bicycle was also crossing but from the opposite side. We kind of came like diagonally at each other and couldn’t decide who should move over to let the other pass so we wound up standing face-to-face with each other and not moving for like 10 seconds, and then we both just bursted out laughing and went our separate ways lol. It was such a perfect, comically human moment that for some reason I feel lucky to have shared with a stranger. Here are two people who couldn’t be more different from one another, and for a single moment in time, and without exchanging a single word, we totally understood each other.
When I was 5, I saw a woman standing with a priest in a graveyard. I was curious because she was crying and I didn’t yet understand death. I went up to her and held her hand for little over an hour. She told me she would’ve been blessed to have a son like me with her husband. I later figured out he died and they were both all alone. Very sad and wholesome at the same time. I think about it every day.
I was walking out of a pro soccer game on a side walk near a busy road. My girlfriend was closest to the road and all I did was move her away from the road and take her spot. These older guys in a car driving by rolled the windows of their down and yelled at me “that was very chivalrous and we love it!”
Scared the c**p out of me for a second but it’s something I’ll remember for a long time!
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