Restore my faith in humanity… 1987 hurricane for example

[Arlanymor]

There seem to have been a glut of posts recently about people just not giving a crap about others. It made me think about the 1987 hurricane when my hamlet was cut off for two weeks from civilisation essentially and what we all did to support one another. There was ONE house with power and the people there threw open their doors to provide hot water and hot food - and were repaid a thousand times over by people in the months after in a myriad of ways.

Please restore my faith in humanity by sharing a nice story of an instance where someone helped someone else out just because of inherent decency. ♥️

"“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers"

There are always helpers. In every bad scenario. Google any awful event and you will find them. Focus on the good and you will find it.

Well yes and I work for a charity where I meet people doing amazing things all the time, wasn’t the point of this thread though. I’m asking on here because recently I’ve seen stuff on here that is the direct opposite of good.

I was only wondering if , in these days of AI and state sponsored disruption , the days of anonymous social media are numbered ? The

I have doubts about how many hateful threads are running and I don't think they are all legit

It's just hard to separate wheat from chaff especially as when you create an atmosphere it's easy to leave it to run - people follow a lead more easily than they would like to admit ( so much so that the US hid research that showed just how easily American citizens could hurt others given the right lead )

We got shut out of our house the other week, me & my 2 kids. The door had jammed on something inside. I don't really know any neighbours but went across the road & down a bit, in desperation, & asked a man who was doing work outside his house if he could possibly come & help.

He bought his toolbag over, tried a few different tools, got the door open & told me to keep the one that had worked in my handbag, in case it happened again. I was so touched. Genuinely lovely.

I gave a woman 20p for the hairdryer at swimming the other day, her child was having a meltdown over their wet hair. I try to medel being kind to my kids. She tried to give me 20p in 5ps but I left it next to her bag.

@applepipshake ‘s reply was supportive of your thread OP and you snapped at them, whether or not it was exactly what you wanted from posters.

yes I was a bit WTF 😆

After my wife passed, one of my neighbours, who I barely knew, prepared a huge amount of food for us. Just to give me a helping hand

Over time this has evolved into her coming round for Sunday lunch regularly, she loves Yorkshires and roast potatoes.

The DC enjoy spending time with her, and she likes acting as a third gran. Her family are quite far away and can't visit that often.

Even better, my mum moved back to the area and they get on like a house on fire.

Haha just noticed my typo up there. I don't think I deserve a 'medal' for my 20p

applepipshake I love that quote, havn't heard it before.

No, I just reaffirmed point that I can google anything but it was wanting to see some goodness on this forum that I was after. I wasn’t remotely rude. How on earth was it snapping?

On a thread about people having faith in humanity, too!
I thought that @applepipshake 's post was lovely!

"My hamlet".

My neighbours washing machine broke, i ran her laundry in mine for 2 weeks while she waited on a new one. Its just what you do isn't it

Tonight is one our Scouts biggest fundraising events of the year. Last year a retired couple in the village attended, no children, no connection to the group in anyway. They enjoyed it so much much, they send us a massive donation a couple of years ago to ensure it could happen this year.

Sorry if you thought so, I was just reiterating my original point. Maybe I was off base somehow but it read a bit as if: “If you want good stuff just Google it.”

Covid lockdown, for me, demonstrated a lot of kindness. Letters through the elderly neighbours door to assist with shopping. Someone made weekly bread for everyone. A lady organised the hanging of bunting on every street to cheer people up. A man would play his trumpet at his doorstep every Sunday afternoon and we’d all stand outside to listen and the kids would dance.

Its ok. I didnt mean it like that, I meant, despite all the shit happening in the world, you can always find people who care and help. The issue is, we dont hear so vociferously about those people hence the news and world events are always skewed towards attention to the perpetrators and bad stuff.

I think if we did hear about daily acts of kindness it would make us feel much better in general.

The young people volunteering to clear up mud and water from buildings in Valencia was wonderful to see last week.

I let my neighbour come in and use my shower every other day for a couple of weeks - because hers was broken and the repair couldn't be done immediately.

(hehehehe)

I’m humbled by the kindness of the care assistants at my relative’s nursing home. She has dementia and none of us could manage her behaviour at home. But the staff are amazing with her. So patient and kind, they play games with her, and she has settled there really well. They are worth every penny of what they are paid. So if you work in care, thank you 🙏🏼

My mum was mugged near her home in Spain and lost 200 euros she couldn't afford to lose.

A few days later she found an envelope in her letterbox "love from your friends" containing 200 euros. She never did find out which friends donated.

I was all ready to have my faith in humanity restored, but it's looking a bit sketchy still 😆

I think this is maybe an example of intention and tone being easy to misinterpret in writing and hopefully that will be accounted for now...

Anyway, my small anecdote blows my own tiny trumpet. I was on a busy train not so long ago, and the girl next to me took her hair down to redo her messy bun. As she was putting it back up the band broke. She looked completely and totally crushed bless her, day ruining stuff. She got up to get off and I handed her my spare. The change in her face was brilliant funny and she was gesturing her thanks from the platform as the train continued. My little gesture was hardly worthy of telling, but it just shows how the little acts of kindness make a real life difference.

Blind person slipped at the health spa. Carer needed help to get them back standing. So I helped.

If you see a situation and are able to help, then do. Don't be the by-stander.

Ah OP what a nice idea and then you were snarky to someone who posted something lovely. Does kindness start at home 🙄

A couple of days ago I took my dad to see, 'Come from Away', if you have not heard of it the subject matter will probably make you wonder how a musical could be made starting on 9/11/2001.

It is a true story, but obviously there are artistic changes.

On 9/11 38 planes were diverted to Gander Newfoundland. 7000 people were on those planes and were welcomed, fed, watered, offered help, clothing, medicine - you name it. For 5 days a small Canadian town almost doubled their population. You don't have to see the musical, just google 'Gander 9/11'.

In March I got a mobility scooter. I wasn't using my car so decided not to get another Motability car.

I live on a council estate called, 'the Scotlands', I know there are other people from Wolverhampton who can confirm it is not a place people aspire to live.

Since I have used my scooter local people and in particular the teenagers have got out of the way for me, stopped their cars to let me cross roads, helped me get things down from shelves in the local Lidl.

On Halloween I wasn't feeling well so instead of answering my door I put a plastic bowl outside with sweets, to be honest I thought it would be taken.

It wasn't, in fact on my ring door bell there are children giving the camera a thumbs up.

this is exactly what I thought! Thank you to the poster @applepipshake who introduced me to Fred Rogers and made me cry a bit this morning - in a good way I hasten to add! It's easy to misread written tone :)