Sometimes it seems that kindness is a rare luxury, but in fact, it is everywhere; we just don’t always notice it. We put together amazingly real-life stories, in which you may recognize your colleagues, neighbors, or just a person you met in the street.
Story 1:
When I was on maternity leave, I used to go to the farmers market every weekend and buy cottage cheese from the same vendor. Her cheese was delicious and she was a very kind person. One time my child got very sick and we had to spend a lot of money on treatment, so cheese was the last thing on my mind. When we finally came back, the vendor was even surprised why we hadn’t been around for so long.
When she found out my child had been sick, she gave him a little jar of clotted cream as a gift. And she always gave us extra anyway. If we came around closing time, she would give us all the leftovers without asking any extra money for them, or give me a pound and a half instead of just one, saying, “Your little one looks thinner, take some more.” That farmers market has been gone for years now, but I still remember that woman with so much warmth. © Mad Squirrel / Dzen
