20+ Moments That Remind Us That Kindness Costs Nothing but Means Everything
Sometimes it seems like there’s no room left in the world for genuine kindness. But all it takes is to hear one simple story — about random help, sincere support, or a small yet significant act — and it feels like your heart remembers that the world is still full of light. In this article, we put together stories that prove — kindness is all around us, and it is always stronger than any hardship. While reading them, you start believing in people a little bit more than you did yesterday.
We went to relax at the lakes in the summer. My husband went fishing in the morning and brought back a live crucian carp. What to do with it was unclear. It seemed too much hassle to dirty a pan for one fish, and there were no cats nearby to treat.
So, we put it in a bowl of water and made a shade from above with leaves. At lunchtime, I needed that bowl. We decided to release the fish back. But how?
Well, we put the bowl in the car, took it to the lake, and carefully tried to release it into the water from the bowl. But it didn’t want to go! It must have been warmer in the bowl.
Somehow, we managed to persuade the fish to return to the lake. Probably it was the only fish in the world that was brought back from fishing in a car.
One night I was walking in the city center. Suddenly, I felt something soft underfoot. I picked it up and saw that it was a wallet; there was no cash, but there were some bank cards and a driver’s license. I found the person in social media by name and was amazed to find we had the same birthdate, so I wrote to him.
Half an hour later, a big guy shows up, driving a Mercedes. He thanked me, asked for my number, then immediately opened a banking app and transferred me $555.55. I was just blown away!
