Were we to follow the news channels, all we would learn is that the world is full of horrible, cunning, treacherous people waiting to pounce on each other. Happily, this is not at all a fact.
Quite often, if we look around us, we certainly encounter endless examples of kindness and benevolence. Here are some selected photos that will renew your faith in your fellow human beings!
2. Appearances can be deceptive.
3. You have run out of funds? No problems! You are welcomed warmly to receive free food.
4. “ryclectic” wrote: “My Buddy Witnessed an Act of Utter Kindness Today…While he was standing on the corner waiting for the crosswalk he saw this woman buy two meals at a street vender and go sit down beside this man and give him one of the meals. She proceeded to introduce herself and talk to him about his life and just shot the [breeze] with him. She wasn’t acting superior, she was his equal, she just wanted to talk to and express inclusion to a fellow human being.”
5. This is a picture of a chap called Tully, holding a 46 year old, wheelchair bound man, with severe mental handicaps. Tully picked him up so he could go on the hay ride with everyone else.
Five minutes into the ride, the man got so excited that he peed all over himself and Tully. Tully sat there soaked in pee for the remainder of the 40 minute hay ride. As soon as it was over he changed the man’s clothes before his own.
6. “Tonight, a mother and daughter started crying mid-meal. I had no idea what happened until a single guy at the table next to them handed me this note with his bill. Faith in humanity, restored.”
7. What a simple, but compassionate idea. Suspended kindness!
8. “YeOldeEnglishKnave” wrote: “Had 10 inches of snow last night. Been stuck in traffic for 7 hours on a drive, which usually takes 25 minutes. These kind people who live nearby are offering free tea or coffee to the drivers. Faith in humanity restored!”
9. Nonprofit group turns bus into a bathroom for the homeless. The former public transit bus has been outfitted with two full private bathrooms and offers hot showers, clean toilets, shampoo, soap, and towels, all free of charge. The founder of the nonprofit Lava Mae mobile shower bus just had the most considerate thought. She just wanted to offer a sense of dignity to those living on the streets.
10. Yuteru Domon, a 15-year-old junior high school student in Japan, collected 49,512 plastic bottle caps for a charity, that gives children in developing countries access to polio vaccines. You are never too young to practice the noble act of giving.
11. This woman spent 3 hours holding the tired horse’s head above the tide, after it got stuck in the mud on a beach in Australia. The horse was later rescued, unharmed.
12. A sign of a cultured, civilized, and honest society.
13. Moments after posing cheerfully for this photograph, at a popular tourist spot in Xinyang, at Henan province in central China, this brave teenager, Cheng Changjiang died. Cheng, 18, branded a ‘hero’ by onlookers, was no swimmer, but he waded through the lake to save the lives of three young children who had fallen into the water. Unfortunately, the brave act cost the teenager his life.
14. A girl bought some lunch, and quietly fed him.
15. If you can spare a few moments to look into the eyes of people around you, you will be able to read all.
This article was originally published on Kindness Blog.
