Hobbling past them on my way to the store, I heard one of them call out. I assumed he was mocking me, then few of them ran up and offered to carry my bags
    • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      25·
      5 days ago

      I think these teens went above and beyond more than just “being kind to strangers”.

      For the next few months, those teenagers were such a great help to me. Anytime I crutch-walked past them they would ask how I was and if I needed a hand with anything. They took my bins out for me and if they saw me at the corner store, they would let me cut in line ahead of them, so I didn’t have to stand around waiting as long.

      I think my favorite quote from Richard Munoz was:

      A lot of people were kind to me during that injury experience – and a few weren’t kind at all! – but by far the most helpful were those teens.

      Stories like this absolutely have a place in the news (and especially in this community) as hopefully it inspires others to go above and beyond in being kind to strangers.

        • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          7·
          5 days ago

          Yeah, that makes sense. I agree, I wish this was such a common thing that it wasn’t even newsworthy.

          But for now I’m glad that some news organizations have started categories that focus on positive news stories like this. This one in particular is part of the Guardian’s “Kindness of Strangers” series. It looks like they started this series about 6 months ago.

          • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            4 days ago

            Every time a narcissist attempts to make headlines, news agencies need to release one of these stories instead.

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      I’m guessing you’ve never look inside a physical newspaper before.

      It’s part of a series of articles called “Kindness of strangers”. Specifically highlighting interesting events where someone was helped and that changed their outlook on life, but isn’t some major event.

      Here are some of the other headlines:

      • a woman lay on the road beside me, holding my hand until the ambulance came

      • I pulled over in hysterics – then a passing driver saved me from the spider

      • when my cat died, my dance class pooled their money for a thoughtful gift