Strangers’ Small Acts That Changed Lives Forever: Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
Don’t know where you are Freddy, but I’ll never forget you.
When I was 9 or 10 I was outside of a grocery store waiting for my mom. the store had automatic doors and whenever they opened I pretended I was holding them open with the force. One person came out and said “thank you”.
I was on the train going to see my friend after a fight with my partner. I thought our relationship was over, and I couldn’t stop crying. A lovely woman came up to me, gave me a tissue, offered me a hug, and asked if I was OK. I told her what had happened, and she comforted me.
It turned out she was a refugee from Syria – she’d just come over in the last couple of months, and hadn’t seen her family since. She had lived through some truly awful things, and there she was trying to make me feel better about a spat. I will never forget her kindness in stopping to see whether I was OK, despite everything she had gone through herself. There are some truly amazing people in the world.
Was upset and on my way home in the subway (NYC)
I had a lot to be sad about, but won’t go into it.
Some guy with tons of face tats who looked intimidating asked me in the softest voice, “what happened?”
I proceeded to tell him all my life woes and he stayed with me 3 stops after his, but he didn’t try to get my number
He just wanted to be a friend to me in that moment because he saw I needed it
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