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Repost, but it’s more believable:
and everybody clapped!
What a sweet, completely made up bullshit story.
Oop practicing for their book
Not thank you for the cake, thank you for making my mommy happy 😀 what a story. Even the cake stood up and clapped.
Today, you. Tomorrow, me.
I joined this site to get away from the reddit f*ggotry.
I love that asterisk. Who's it for? How many people are ok with that word but only if it's censored
Pick a side!
I know everyone here is cynical. But damned my spirits will not be crushed.
Humanity can do good and evil. Most of the time I try to do good and help others.
I have chipped in for people at the cashiers. Helped by donating, giving random stuff, helping them or even rescuing them.
There are many others that way. I like to believe.
It starts with you. Take your time in life to make it better.
Also sacrifice the billionaires for humanity.
They're cynical because this person is lying and this never happened.
I KNOW humanity is awesome! It's also really fucking terrible, but I cannot allow myself to become jaded either. I like helping others, I like to see people happy, and what goes around definitely comes around.
Small acts of kindness are hugely important, and I've known people whom I've shown what I thought were standard care for, burst into tears for being so nice to them.
Your small acts may mean heaps for others.
This post is X-Files "I want to believe" territory...
Say what you want about Mulder but the man had a purpose in life.
And a lot of people wanted to kill him for it.
Doesn't matter if it's true or not, what I personally hate about these stories is that it cheapens the act by making it performative or self-congratulatory. If you do a good deed you're not supposed to talk about it, and certainly not in this overly flowery trash prose.
I'm not religious at all anymore but I lived a significant amount of time in the Bible Belt so you have to steel yourself against religious hypocrites or go insane. So IMO this is one of the good lessons in the Bible, for what it's worth.
“When you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret."
There's merit in "do good and talk about it". Public sentiment is very dependent on that.
There's an argument to be made that this kind of story inspires more people to go good things in ways that they may simply not have thought of otherwise.
And also, there's a difference between a video that its edited etc. and someone just recounting what happened to share the moment.
Honestly, if it gets people to be kind, do it. But do it genuinely. Help people and brag, but don't exploit them. I volunteer, I post about it all the time, but I'd still go even if I wasn't posting, I really don't care about the clout.
Help one another, show others your good deed. But don't do it for clout, do it because it's the right thing to do.
So what do you suggest? The internet, tv, everyday life, etc is full of people doing the wrong thing constantly and being rewarded insanely for it.
Then a person posts a wholesome story that might inspire others to kindness and your response is this?
What a sad world we live in right now.
You kind of need good actions TO BE SEEN. Come on man.
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I have no idea who this person is. I have no idea if this is true. But i need to at least think there are people like this in the world. Especially right now. So I NEED stories like this.
There are people like this in the world. Believe that. I can't count the number of times people have helped me out of the blue, randomly, without prodding, when I've been seriously down on my luck. Empathy is one of the most primal human emotions. Only psychopaths lack it.
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There's worse things to attention whore about. You could call this setting a good example, too.
The more I think about it, the more I don't like the mindset that good deeds must be done in secret. People shouldn't expect anything in return other than appreciation, but I think good deeds do deserve appreciation.
And I'd bet that bit in the bible was actually there to discourage competition and make it look like no one helps each other so the church is more necessary.
As long as people aren't just making up shit, exaggerating wildly, twisting what happened, or humiliating the people they help.
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Don't say it more. America, freedom country ?
I could believe this story until the card wasn't just a thank you.
Honestly, the card at the end made me believe it more.
I'm a school bus driver and I got a card at the end of the year from all the kids at one stop. They all signed their names, but one fourth-grade girl added "thank you for driving us from place to place and for making us smile every day. We ♥ you!" I about melted. Much more meaningful than the fucking Panera gift card it came with (I know, I know: never look a gift horse in the microwave).
These kids are all rich as fuck, so it's not exactly the same as OP's story.
Whether it's true or not is beside the point. It's plausible, that's enough. It's plausible, because similar things do happen all the time. People are mostly kind and thoughtful, and it's good to be reminded of that.
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The best charity doesn’t look like charity
I really want this story to be true.
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Is charity porn a thing? I think it's now a thing. Or maybe charity erotica?
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