There’s a lot of small kindnesses that we all recieve in our lives, especially as kids, perhaps. But I want to hear of those that you remember.
I was inspired to write this post by something that happened a few years ago. My old cat had stopped eating (for the second time) and he was clearly not well. He was about 17 years old and I took tim to the animal hospital.
The vetrinarian, a woman about my age (28 or so) told me that an examination and potential treatment wasn’t going to be the right thing to to. She stayed with me for a long while as they were preparing to put him to sleep. I started crying and she stayed with me and told me how cats will have to face the end one way or another, and that I was doing the right thing. She comforted me through the whole thing. I don’t even remember her name, but she was one of the kindest people I’d ever met.
Please share how people have been kind to you
So, I’m from East Germany and was still a small child when the wall came down. When I went to West Berlin for the first time in my life with my parents just days after the borders were opened we went into a big shopping mall. There I was flabbergasted at the variety of sheer stuff to buy and just stood there with an open mouth. An older woman saw me, approached me and asked me if I was “from the East”. I could only nod looking up at her. Then she gave me twenty D-Mark and told me to buy something nice for myself.
Absolutely lovely. Old women are the primary source of stories like this. Their kindness should be an inspiration for all the young people that meet with it
I want to add one time I was at the store and an old woman had bought a lot of food and the girl in the counter asked her “can your really carry all this home?” The old woman said “If the brain is stupid, the body suffers” and tried to carry it by herself. I insisted that I could help her carry, it and she allowed me to carry her stuff until we were within a block of where she lived. Proudently catuious as she was, she wanted to finish the last leg on her own. But she did give me three candys for it. She told me in what order to eat them too lol.
Gotta love old ladies