The Kindness of Strangers
by Merely Me
Sunday, June 07, 2009
I wrote this piece several years ago after an encounter my son and I had with an elderly stranger. When you have a child who has special needs who may look or act differently than other kids, you sometimes begin to think of the world as a cruel place. The angry stares, the ...
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Paul
Monday, June 08, 2009 at 02:26 PMre: I like stories like this
Merely Me
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 06:41 PMYeah I wish there were more people like this man out there. Kindness is sometimes hard to find. I wish I had thanked him...but he didn't seem to want that.
Thank you so much for your comment. I will definitely be writing more personal stories such as this one.
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Quinn Bradlee
Monday, June 08, 2009 at 03:10 PMAfter your reading your story, I feel that the moral of the story is that sometimes people are quick to judge people and especially if we only have seen one side of that person. If we only know one side of a person, sometimes or a lot of the times we don't think there is another side to that person. I guess the real moral of the story is, everybody has two sides and as mean as they may act, sometimes they may not have a choice to act like that, but deep down inside, there is kindness in everybody; that it was I truely believe.
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Merely Me
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 06:44 PMYou got it!
As much as I hate people judging my Max...I guess I do the same thing to others sometimes. I am glad I had that experience to show me that people can be kind underneath a gruff exterior.
Thanks so much for reading my writings Quinn...it means a lot!
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At least, when you have been confronted by man's ignorance and rudeness you can take and hold memories of strangers showing a different side of humanity.
There is that, at the end of the day, when tears may run and hope for tomorrow seems distant or unattainable. Someone nice is out there, not perhaps, enough of them.
Many people, I think, hold back their kind side for whatever, tentative reason. This man was able and willing to show his, even though I'm sure, he never thought of it that way. You felt it, and Max liked it, and that was enough.
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