Tell me something that gives me faith in humanity... (vent)

I have a wonderful friend who is in treatment for leukemia. During her hospital stay, she wrote a grant to get medical equipment that helps to prevent those painful mouth sores. She is such an inspiration!

I evidently dropped my MP3 player in the garage last Saturday night while I was getting my stuff out of the car, because on Sunday morning when I went down, someone had balanced it on my door handle so I'd see it when I got in.

There was a huge fire today at a dog kennel. Numerous other kennels stepped in to take any survivors and offered transport to any vets for dogs that needed treatment. Unfortunately many dogs were lost.

I just watched my Mother say goodbye to her best friend at her casket.  Boy was it a reminder of love, charity, service and friendship.  When I think about the trials that each of them went trough and the fact that they supported each other along the way. It gives me chills to know that people can have so much love in them after everything life throws at them.  (death of a child, alcoholism, teenager placing a baby for adoption, having retirement stolen) 
jen

Wow!  I love this.  It completely made my day!  Thank you for sharing this wonderful thought.

I teach, and every day and I have some students who I just know are going to grow up to make the world a better place.  There are good people everywhere, and there are good kids who are growing up to be good, kind adults.

During the last snow storm in Arkansas, my niece and her boyfriend saw an older couple who were stuck in the snow near their house. He went out and helped the couple get the car back to their house (she is quite pregnant so didn't help). Then they convinced the couple to spend the night with them instead of trying to get through the storm back to their own house. They spent the night and left the next day when they road plow came through.

Yesterday the couple came by and dropped off several boxes of diapers, wipes, clothes and a nice gift card for my DN and her BF.

One more: we had a record snowfall in the beginning of February. My ds was leaving a friend's house 2 or 3 days later when main roads were clear, but side roads were still pretty bad. He saw a man with his middle school aged child in the car stuck in the snow. DS pulled over and he and the dad pushed the car out of the snow. In a world where it seems like people do good things so they can post on social media and receive validation, my son never posted a word about it. He did it because it was the right thing to do, not for any special recognition.

I have a doctor and a physical therapist who still have not given up on me over three years after my accident They continue to give me hope for a fuller recovery. Hope is the greatest gift. They are truly good people.

This was on our local news here in Syracuse. So sad.

Mum and I were at the Melanoma Institute in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. Obviously being there is not good but....

We did not encounter a single person who wasn't helpful, pleasant and generally awesome. We saw several world class specialists that day, and obviously there were many more in the building we didn't see and there was not a single ego to shadow our experience. Amazing group of people.

I am sorry your having such a sucky day. I cant think of a great story, but I can say I love reading your posts. Even on the old board I looked forward to reading your opinions or advice in a thread.

Intelligent, thoughtful, clear headed and fair thats you!

Ps hang in there, tomorrow will be better than today.

Awe, I hope you change your mind about that.  Both of my (adult) children ended up moving in with DH and me.  We were newlyweds at the time and DH loves spending alone-time with me, so this changed everything!  DS24 was just coming off of serious drugs when he moved in with us.  Turned out that DH became his mentor and DS is now thriving (a year later).  He went to N.A. because of DH, he got healthy, and got a job.  Within a very short time, he got offered a manager's position.  He had such low self-esteem because of everything he had been thru, but DH really, really helped him, every single day.  I am blessed.  DH isn't in such great health, so this took a lot out of him, but my son appreciates him and loves him like crazy!!

Now I'm facing major surgery this Friday and I have my DH's love and support, and my kids beside me, and they're responsible adults now (finally).  So, there are some good people in this world, and they could change people's lives and impact them so deeply.  Have faith.  Not everyone is a rotten egg.

Beautiful thread!

Guys from dh work had a benefit for him Friday night. People were very very generous. We didn't go because his Immunity was very low. Our teens went with aunts and uncles. They had a 50/50 drawing. People kept coming up to them with strips of tickets - one guy bought $200 worth and handed his end to our kids so we would receive all the money if he won.

There were 50+ baskets for a Chinese auction. People showed up at the door with baskets. even quite a few people who didn't attend contributed money, time or goods.

The organizers went into this expecting to raise a particular amount. There were maybe 100 less in attendance than hoped for but 1/3 more $ raised than anticipated.

We are overwhelmed by people's support.