Acts of Kindness
A few weeks ago, I was walking to my car in the parking lot when someone came up to me and said he enjoyed reading my weekly column. "But," he said, "you always write about everyone's bad experiences. Why don’t you ask people to talk about their good experiences, too?" So I asked readers to write in and tell me about all the good things that happened to them recently. I got hundreds of replies. Here arc three of them:
I was coming home from a party really late at night, and I missed the last train home. I didn’t have enough money for a cab, and I didn’t want to walk home in the dark I was standing outside the train station, and I guess I looked worried because a woman came up and asked me if I needed any help. She offered to share a cab with me and to pay for it! She said she didn’t like being by herself at night, either. I was so grateful.