Strangers’ Small Acts That Changed Lives Forever: Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
When I dropped him off he pulled out his wallet at my protest, but instead of cash handed me one of those little sayings that gets clipped to the end of teabags. The last few months have been extremely rough for me, between the phrase and the conversation, the whole experience was uplifting, somehow reassuring and a bit surreal.
“There is nothing like you, there was nothing like you, and there shall be nothing like you”.
A guy saw me pay my last two dollars for bus fare that wasn’t going where I needed to go and threw his bus pass out the window to me as they drove off.
I was walking my then puppy who is a Rottweiler. She was also giant for a puppy (50 lbs by 13 weeks). We had a hard time socializing her because she was nervous around people plus most people didn’t want to take the time to meet her because of her size and breed, although she’s really a big teddy bear. Anyways we walked past the fire station and one of the firemen was out with his dog. We were talking and my dog Osa was doing ‘air bites’ towards him (puppy thing not aggressive thing which not everyone gets). He had a glove on and just stuck his hand in her mouth as if to say ‘is this what you want?’ and she was so confused but kept the softest bite on his hand. (I wouldn’t have let him do that if I thought she would hurt him.) This stands out so much because my dog often gets discriminated by people. It felt great to meet a stranger who saw that my dog wasn’t being aggressive but was just being a goof ball puppy. She also loved him after that point.
I was waitressing at a local hibachi restaurant. I had recently gotten stood up by a guy from a dating app and I was having a pretty slow night. I was serving a single mother with two younger kids, and I had just taken their drink order, and after she thanked me, she looks me in the eyes and says, “You’re beautiful.” I immediately got flustered and thanked her, of course, and told her that this was something I really needed to hear. She continued to be encouraging and super nice the entire time I was waiting on her.
She left before I had the chance to say a proper goodbye to her. There were two receipts left on the table, which was odd because we only take one copy of it. The first one had a note on the back that said “I don’t know what you’re going through right now, but I meant what I said. You’re a great person, and you have a lot of light in you. Don’t let people dim it. xoxo”. On the actual receipt, she left a 50% tip. I never saw the woman again.
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