To ask you to share some acts of kindness?

In 1996, I had just started uni and was getting to know all the new people in my halls. A group of us walked to the supermarket, and I ended up with several heavy bags of shopping. One of the girls I just met insisted on carrying some of my bags back as she only had a couple. I was sure she must have some alternative agenda, maybe she was trying to get me on side for some reason, why was she sucking up? However, I quickly discovered she had no alterior motive and was just a really kind decent person, who would always offer help to someone who needed it. She was also a great laugh who loved a drink and a dance, so we quickly became good friends and 30 years later, she's still one of my most cherished friends, and still an incredibly good person. I'm not such a miserable cynic when I meet new people these days!

Ladies at a care home local to hospital where I work knitted hearts for neonatal babies. The ladies were all in their 90s and came on a minibus to present them, even though they weren’t allowed to meet any of the babies due to IPV. They just wanted to do something for our youngest patients. I thought that was so gorgeous.

I gave a very tired looking medic an umbrella in a downpour recently.
She had just finished a shift and it poured out of the heavens. She had no coat.
I was driving near my parent’s house and pulled in and grabbed an umbrella and gave it to her. I couldn’t give her a lift as I had almost reached my destination and others were dependent on my getting there.
I hope i get my umbrella back as i shouted out my address through the downpour but sure it’s not important. I have more umbrellas.
The next day a very kind lady paid for my parking.
I had forgotten my credit card and the machine wouldn’t give change.
I only had €20 and the parking fee was €1.50.
I would have had to go to a shop and buy the cheapest thing to break up the €20 note. She saved me the hassle. ❤️

when my gran was on EOL care at home I had to go to the pharmacy in a supermarket 3 times a day to get the morphine. Couldn’t store it in the house.
It’s a £5 minimum spend in the shop for the carpark. I expected to just pay it.
The pharmacist saw what I was there for came out with a stack of car park payment exemption vouchers and said use what you need

I had held it together until then. I also had a duvet under my arm to buy as my well meaning uncle had fed my dog bacon and he had been very sick on mine. So a low moment all round.

I don’t like spiders but I can’t kill them. I scoop them up and put them outside in the flowers.
I gave the postman a cold bottle of Evian water during the heatwave.

A lovely Scottish couple came to mine and my daughter's assistance in Yorkshire, when my car stalled on a steep, narrow incline and I couldn't get it going again. I was having a full-blown panic attack. They pulled in behind us and the husband got into my car and drove it to the town we were heading for whilst I travelled in their car with his wife.

I allow a driver out or in on every car journey I make.

I let people with fewer items than me go before me at supermarket tills.

I once paid for an old gent's few items because he didn't have enough money.

I always try to save tired bees with sugar water.

I don't kill spiders 🙂

I used to take my dd in her pram for a walk through local woods every week. A tree came down across the path which made it really hard to continue (but turning would have meant going back up two hills and adding another few miles to the walk). The third week I asked on FB if it was still down as I wouldn’t go if it was. (I’d assumed it would have been sorted within the week which is why I risked it the second time.) Within a couple of hours a local replied saying he’d taken his chainsaw and cleared it.

A few years ago, I had covid fairly badly (not hospitalised but not great). When my dog disappeared, kind people went and looked for him for me.

A snail was trying to crawl cross warm tarmac in very hot weather so I picked him up and put him into a shaded leafy area beneath bushes 😊🐌

I sent someone at work some impromptu lovely feedback yesterday and copied it to her manager and their manager. She messaged me to say that she’d been feeling really low about work recently and that had really given her a boost. Her manager’s manager also forwarded it on to their director so it had a much bigger impact than I’d thought.