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What's The Kindest Thing You Have Ever Done?

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  • 14-04-2018 11:33AM
    #1
    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    Have you ever did a kind deed that made you feel like it was worth getting out of bed just to see the happiness your kind deed brought to the person or persons lives. If so why not share it with other posters. Doing a kind deed for someone to me means helping them when they can't help themselves like checking in on your elderly neighbour to volunteering to do charity work which I've done many times. So no matter how big or small they all matter to the people you help.


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    #2
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Similar feel-good themed thread, but without the awkward hint of bragging..
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056351454


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I brought my dog for a walk this morning.
    He was delighted with himself.

    It's like he forgot he went for a walk yesterday and doesn't know he's going for a walk tomorrow either


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    Fr_Dougal
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    I totolly do totes of chority work, but I don’t loike to talk about it.


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    [Deleted User]
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    I once “thanked” a post in the politics forum. I had no idea what I was doing but would have loved to have seen the look on the poster’s face.

    I very rarely mention it as I am very humble


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    whiskeyman
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    Said 'I Do'...


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    #7
    AllForIt
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    When I dumped my partner.


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    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,791 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Gave away a Kidney.















    Ive no idea who it belonged to, but the guy really wanted to have it.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I feel only others can tell you the kindest thing you've done, as it's relative to the effort and the circumstances of the recipient. You may consider a major charity initiative to be the notable item, while a small kindness that hardly crossed your mind may have had the greatest impact. I honestly don't know. For example my wife and I have put children, not our own, through school and college. Mrs S knits for charity and neo natal units and I do chores and shopping for less able neighbours. But which is kindest? I have no idea and never looked at it that way. Sometimes a friendly greeting, or taking time to talk to somebody in need of company, might have the greatest impact. At other times it might be a significant financial contribution to a needy cause.


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    fineso.mom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    AllForIt wrote: »
    When I dumped my partner.

    were you being kind to them or yourself ☺


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    Asa Early Range wrote: »
    I feel only others can tell you the kindest thing you've done, as it's relative to the effort and the circumstances of the recipient. You may consider a major charity initiative to be the notable item, while a small kindness that hardly crossed your mind may have had the greatest impact. I honestly don't know. For example my wife and I have put children, not our own, through school and college. Mrs S knits for charity and neo natal units and I do chores and shopping for less able neighbours. But which is kindest? I have no idea and never looked at it that way. Sometimes a friendly greeting, or taking time to talk to somebody in need of company, might have the greatest impact. At other times it might be a significant financial contribution to a needy cause.

    I agree I think a small gesture like taking time out from our busy lives to talk to maybe an elderly person who is lonely or maybe need help with their grocery shopping is as important to that person as working voluntary for a charity organisation. I would never compare any of my kind deeds i make as I feel they they are all equal if they change a persons life for the better.


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    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Similar feel-good themed thread, but without the awkward hint of bragging..
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056351454

    Nowt wrong with a a little bit of casual bragging


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    cantdecide wrote: »
    Nowt wrong with a a little bit of casual bragging

    If making a kind gesture that helps someone and makes you feel good I say why not talk about it in a way that doesn't sound like you're a do gooder and all you want is praise.


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    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    AllForIt wrote: »
    When I dumped my partner.

    now four people stand to be miserable instead of just two


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    #15
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Gave the homeless man with the rabbit 20 quid. It was about 2 months after the Liffey incident.

    That story really stirred something in me. The fella would risk his life to save his pet rabbit. He's a good man.


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    #16
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Would rather think of kindnesses done for me, and this week the supervalu order takes pride of place;; even i that creature tried to ruin it...

    They went out of their way to do that for an old wan in need

    Little enough I can do; knit, care, pray, above all pray.. But what others do is great and wonderful and often they do not even know how much it is valued. So in many ways the greatest kindness I can do is thank and praise and appreciate openly and fully.

    I added a wee crocheted angel to the thank you letter!


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Can we include not giving in to the urge to rid humanity of some oxygen thieves ?


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Can we include not giving in to the urge to rid humanity of some oxygen theses ?

    Perhaps - if I knew what that means.


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    gifted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,227 ✭✭✭gifted


    I brought chocolate cake over to my neighbour on the first mothers day since his wife died...sat with him and drank coffee and ate cake...left him with a smile...


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Asa Early Range wrote: »
    Perhaps - if I knew what that means.
    Autocorrect.

    I had meant tea leaves.


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    #21
    KERSPLAT!
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    Meh, hard to judge what I've done. Probably not nearly enough. Much easier to tell you one of the kindest things done for me.

    Christmas '16, for whatever reason, I was unable to bring my son to see Santa. It was a similar issue to the year before so it really bothered me though I tried not let on to anyone. Anyway, on the morning of my son's birthday just a few weeks before Christmas I was having a small party for him in the house. A few cousins and other relations invited over for a small get together. Just before people began to arrive I got a phone call and was told to open an envelope I had been given a few days before, I had thought it was a birthday/Christmas present.

    As I read the letter I could feel my eyes well up. It was a letter from a very special person to tell me that Santa had found out that my son wasn't going to see him and that all little boys should get to see Santa and tell him what they want for Christmas...

    10 minutes later there's a knock at the door and there he was, the big man himself. A sack full of selection boxes over his shoulder. Not only did my son get to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas, he had the man himself visit him at home.

    I've told that person a thousand times what that meant to me and my family but I don't think they'll ever truly know.


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    Bitches Be Trypsin
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    I'm really not a kind person but I once stayed up for over a day straight to talk a friend through his suicidal intentions, and failed a final in college as a result. Not exactly kind but selfless I guess.


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    #23
    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Meh, hard to judge what I've done. Probably not nearly enough. Much easier to tell you one of the kindest things done for me.

    Christmas '16, for whatever reason, I was unable to bring my son to see Santa. It was a similar issue to the year before so it really bothered me though I tried not let on to anyone. Anyway, on the morning of my son's birthday just a few weeks before Christmas I was having a small party for him in the house. A few cousins and other relations invited over for a small get together. Just before people began to arrive I got a phone call and was told to open an envelope I had been given a few days before, I had thought it was a birthday/Christmas present.

    As I read the letter I could feel my eyes well up. It was a letter from a very special person to tell me that Santa had found out that my son wasn't going to see him and that all little boys should get to see Santa and tell him what they want for Christmas...

    10 minutes later there's a knock at the door and there he was, the big man himself. A sack full of selection boxes over his shoulder. Not only did my son get to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas, he had the man himself visit him at home.

    I've told that person a thousand times what that meant to me and my family but I don't think they'll ever truly know.

    What a wonderful story. That story encapsulates the true spirit of Christmas and how one kind deed can leave an everlasting wonderful affect on a persons life. Thanks for sharing.


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    Graces7
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    When I was on the North Sea island< i had a lovely flower garden. .One day when the postman came, an old islander, I picked a big bunch of tulips and asked to drop them off. as we always did, at a neighbours,

    She rang me later in sheer delight

    She was expecting guests, had cleaned and polished and was standing there wishing she had bought flowers, when the postman arrived. Clutching the flowers in an embarrassed way!

    One of those delightful serendipity moments you could never organise


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    When I was on the North Sea island< i had a lovely flower garden. .One day when the postman came, an old islander, I picked a big bunch of tulips and asked to drop them off. as we always did, at a neighbours,

    She rang me later in sheer delight

    She was expecting guests, had cleaned and polished and was standing there wishing she had bought flowers, when the postman arrived. Clutching the flowers in an embarrassed way!

    One of those delightful serendipity moments you could never organise

    Again your story displays how such a simple gesture can bring a bit of happiness to another persons life if only for one moment in time.


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    #26
    monkeysnapper
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    Once all my family went out for dinner because myself and now wife were visiting my home in Wales a month before we were to get married., there was about 15 of us.

    While they all got into heated conversation into who had starter and who had coffee I decided to go up and just pay for lot .

    We went onto pub after and they continued conversation.

    So the kindest thing I ever did was put my wife in a car and take her back to Ireland where we will never leave.


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    #27
    mad muffin
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    I washed my hands after taking a dump.


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    #28
    garbo speaks
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    When I was in college, my best friend started going out with a girl in our class. She had a bit of a reputation as 'easy' and I didn't want her to take advantage of my friend. So, I concocted an elaborate story about how I saw her kissing some guy in my home town after a night out. They broke up based on my story and I saved my friend getting hurt by her in the long run. I still mention to him to this day how fortunate I was to "see" her that night with the other guy!


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    #29
    eviltwin
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    I did a shop for a woman on another site I used to post on. She was in a tough position financially and I felt bad for her.


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    garbo speaks wrote: »
    When I was in college, my best friend started going out with a girl in our class. She had a bit of a reputation as 'easy' and I didn't want her to take advantage of my friend. So, I concocted an elaborate story about how I saw her kissing some guy in my home town after a night out. They broke up based on my story and I saved my friend getting hurt by her in the long run. I still mention to him to this day how fortunate I was to "see" her that night with the other guy!

    Erm. But maybe she wouldn't have hurt your friend and they would have been very happy together. I don't know. That kind of interference seems very intrusive and deceitful.

    In my own life I've had a number of kindnesses shown to me. I do it too. It's a very important quality I think and if there was more kindness maybe the world wouldn't be so conflicted.

    Sometimes I think that if the powers that be could just sit and talk and listen and understand, bombing and fighting and killing each other wouldn't happen. A naive thought I know.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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