Lighthearted : AIBU to think there are still lovely people about

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Easy to think it's all doom and gloom but am feeling happy today after my friend shared what happened this morning. She got out of her car after driving to work in very poor driving conditions to find the mechanic from the car showroom downstairs standing waiting. He told her a bulb is gone in her car then took the keys off her and is going to pop one in.

Yabu : you are a pair of naive fools - he wanted to pop one in someplace alright
Yanbu : random acts of kindness are the best. She should pay it forward now to keep it going

Hi OP. I agree with you. I’ve had a few (small) random acts of kindness over the years and I genuinely believe there’s more nice people around than bad. I think it’s just we hear more about bad things than good. X

Absolutely. Nice people are the majority.

I got a free Rocky Road in my favourite cafe yesterday.

🤤

I think as people none of us are fabulous 24/7 but most of us are decent at heart.
Even the smallest kindnesses count. It doesn’t matter what they are, but don’t we all feel so much better when kindness is offered to us?
And doing something lovely for someone else makes the heart sing.
Now if only we could feed this up the chain to leaders around the globe? Because it seems like they are intent on the very opposite.
It is up to us to keep the decency going!

That is lovely OP but your YABU message did make me giggle

and I agree, there are a lot of lovely people about

Most people are lovely.

I genuinely think it depends on your lived experience. I would say so, but I did something nice but minor for a random stranger recently (I was selling something on FB for a tenner, she asked if could drop it off a few miles away, and when I dropped it off I gave it her for free), and she was so so grateful, and sent me a message saying I was an angel, that there weren't many people like me about, I'd made her day, I was so kind etc.

It made me quite sad, because in my world, there are a lot of nice kind people about, people far nicer than me, who would do way way more than that, but in hers it seemed to be rare based on her reaction. Which made me wonder about the people she has in her life, and why it seemed so unusual that someone would do something nice for her. I think about her a lot.

Also: I have a brake light out, where is this lovely mechanic exactly please?!

YANBU.

I have just emigrated to a new country as a young, single woman and the support and encouragement as well as practical help that I have received has been phenomenal. At both ends too (in home country and in new country).

I've happy-cried about it more times than I care to admit. 🥹