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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:
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a woman lay on the road beside me, holding my hand until the ambulance came
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I pulled over in hysterics – then a passing driver saved me from the spider
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when my cat died, my dance class pooled their money for a thoughtful gift
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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.
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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.
Every time a narcissist attempts to make headlines, news agencies need to release one of these stories instead.
Teenagers from a few different schools would sit under the tree nearest our block of units. They were a bit troublesome sometimes. Usually, they would just smoke cigarettes and the occasional doobie. But other times they’d spray paint tags on our fence or yell smartarse comments at people walking through the park.
So very “scary!” How did you possibly survive before getting to know them?
Yeah, the uplifting story is that a judgmental curmudgeon is forced to interact with other local people and discovers that he had misjudged them. Maybe this experience opened his mind and he gives more people the benefit of the doubt.
Tbf teenagers are generally emotionally unstable and highly impressionable. As anyone who has ever spent a lot of time working around them could tell you, the same kids could either be absolute shitbirds or total saints just depending on the day.
If you have a group of 5 teenagers, all it takes is one of them being a prick for all 5 of them to start acting like pricks. The same is true when it comes to them acting positively. If one acts like a saint first, then the rest are more likely to follow
