I was traveling on the London underground subway, and got off at my destination station. I started climbing up the stairs when I saw a couple carrying luggage up the stairs. They were each dragging two heavy bags up the stairs. The gentleman was doing a decent job, but the lady was struggling to lift them. I offered to help her, but she said that it was really heavy. I still insisted to help. Then, I squatted, lifted the bag from the wheels side, and together we smoothly carried the distributed weight up the stairs.By doing it together, it took us less than a minute to reach up the stairs, and we were able to avoid further wear and tear to the bag!
The couple thanked me, and as I was walking away, I heard them talking about how we still have such sweet people who help others. :) I smiled and said to myself, "You should visit kindspring.org to find a world full of them!"
Gratitude for all of you, for inspiring me to grow in kindness!
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- Posted by hshah6
- Nov 15, 2014
- Comments (9)
Readers Comments
vitalreiki wrote: How wonderful - I'm visualising the stairs in the London tubes now. Phew! Good on ya, mate and your final response to them was cute. Wish I had Karma Bucks to give you but I am all out.
wavingatyou wrote: Wonderful world wonderful people :) well done!
gearden wrote: Simple kindness, common courtesy, bringing these back into peoples' experiences makes a difference. Thank you for caring.
mindyjourney wrote: Thank you, my kind friend!
monica wrote: I work for the city lodge hotel group, we currently have 54 hotels and we are all followers of the 'kindness movement. When we catch our staff doing kind deeds for one another or for guests they are given a tag badge and we work on a point system, every 2 months we celebrate "i'm kind day, and the person with the most points wins a great prize, so we acknowledge staff for doing good for others, and we share this with all our staff, and i think that this is a great tool for any company too practice.
Judy Barnett wrote: When a salesperson says to me, "have a nice day," i smile, look straight at him/her and say, "you helped! " it often lightens their day. It makes me feel good, too - particularly if i'm not having a particularly great day myself!
Gopal Agrawal wrote: Acts of kindness do not need any publicity, they smell like flowers by themselves
DotMatrix wrote: Ah i love this story! Thank you! ♥
same wrote: That was so good of you to help them. An easy act yet so helpful. No wonder you did a great job and put a smile to their faces. Thankyou!
