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Sometimes strangers can be kind... or not. I’d love to hear your stories about things random people have told you that stuck with you or even changed your life. Feel free to share them here!
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#1
I was volunteering in a hospital for children with cancer. I was also going through a very difficult period (breakup, issues with my a*****e family).
One day, I was chatting to one of the mothers who had her child hospitalized there. I complained that I seemed unable "to find love".
She looked at me with her deep blue eyes and told me: "You are one of the kindest and caring people I've met. You've done so much for us, and the kids lighten up when they see you. You say you are looking for love - but, my darling, you ARE love"
Never thought of that perspective before...
Final score:
6points
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#2
1) People judge others by themselves.
2)If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you always got.
Final score:
6points
Vonny 4 months ago
I was just going to add a version of #2 that someone told me when I was younger, they phrased it as " If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always be what you've always been". That's how I recall it. The other one told to me by a different person which I've never forgotten ( in over 40 yrs. ) is this one: " Learn to give without expecting to receive ". I was young( ish ) and it didn't make much difference to me, then later it started making more and more sense. What I started to realize was that not just me, but most people I knew, always seemed to expect SOMETHING after they'd given something. Example, I gave an hour of my time to babysit a friends' two boys. (for 'free' ) but realized that I expected her to do something for me in return. And a friend loaned me their car for a day, I filled it with gas, had it washed etc. & returned early. But, they expected more from me. Giving, without expecting anything at all ever, is harder to do than it sounds.
#3
"No one can make you feel inferior without your concent"
~Eleanor Roosevelt
Final score:
5points
Miss Ann Thrope 4 months ago
I use a variation of this. "No one can make you feel anything without your permission."
#4
Why he was homeless and chose to be. Upstate NY. I'd keep some change in my pocket to to give him walking to and from work. One day, when I hadn't seen him in a while, I put $5 in my pocket just in case I did. Instinct. We sat and talked, and I was late to work. He was an interesting fellow. Just preferred to be on his own without and an abode. I was a suit wearing female working in the NY legislature at the time. I'm still female, just not working legislature. LOL. And, I got rid of my suit collection.
Final score:
5points
#5
"Your parents raised you right.."
"You're a kind and caring soul.."
Final score:
5points
#6
This older woman came into the vet clinic with her granddaughters I assume. Looking at me she said "She looks like a nice girl." I looked up and she smiled at me. I thought that was so sweet. I was also joking around with my co-workers one day and said "We're all going straight to hell aren't we?" A Dr. that we worked with said "If Ms.Gb is going to hell we're all doomed." I always remember that and it was nice to know that she thought so highly of me so I'll never forget that.
Final score:
4points
#7
When I was 13 years old, I heard Eleanor Roosevelt speak. I was the only child in. an audience of adults, She was mesmerizing and deeply inspiring. I will never forget one thing she said: "If you have a decision to make, ;isten to your heart. Your deliberations may lead you astray, but if you let your heart decide, you ill never make a mistake." Many years later, I realized that a simplified version of what she was saying is to just to trust your "guts." This turned out to be especially important for me as a young oman in the 60s.
Final score:
4points
#8
Smile it's not that bad!
Said to me two days after partner had died.
Final score:
3points
#9
If you think you know everything, you’ll never learn anything………said to me by a professor I had just met.
Final score:
3points
#10
Awe are you lost? Let me help you!
Ma’am i may be 5’3 but im not a child
Final score:
2points
Inigo Montoya 4 months ago
When traveling overseas, with my wife and her mother, someone asked about our "daughter" while looking at my wife. Yes, I look old for my age and she looks young, but really?
#11
I was at the shop with my mom once, and she told me at the checkout to get these fruit strings she forgot but they were on a high shelf and I was short, but then an old man came over and got them for me, and he said “ There you go, I don’t like seeing you suffer
Final score:
2points
#13
That I'm quite good-looking for a black woman - WTF?
Final score:
1point
PunchinelloTX 4 months ago
Compliments should never come with qualifiers, especially racist ones.
#14
My favorite saying is one I heard many years ago. When you are trying and trying to make something work, just remember "All you can do is all you can do". It has helped my level of frustration many, many times and let me accept what I can and can't do.
Final score:
1point
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