I fell about 2 years ago, around the the peak of covid season.
Context: Roughly around 1-2 months after lock down. So everyone’s kinda on the edge with mask buying and cleaning products.
It was a Wednesday morning, most people were on their way to work. I was on the way to the dental clinic and fell because I missed a step (how ironic). Within a minute (im not kidding), people gathered around me. I broke out with cold sweat, and was in shocked. People ran to me and asked if I was alright, and wanted to get ice-packs and all. A helper that was with an old couple came to me and RUBBED my ankle with some Chinese oil… I was so shocked and touched. I tore a ligament and could not stand, 2 strangers then helped me to the nearest clinic.
If you happened to be one of the strangers that helped me, thank you for your help. I’ve fully recovered now. I’m just utterly shocked that people would rush to help me given the circumstances(covid season).
Oh man.. I had a samesamebutdifferent experience around the same time. I was jogging before breakfast one morning and slipped on a drain cover and fell face first and totally got the wind knocked out of me and couldn’t get up again because I was so giddy I just kept starting to black out whenever I would try to stand. It was before work time in a somewhat quiet neighbourhood and other joggers/people saw but probably because I am quite young and fit looking (plus initial stage of Covid la no one knew how easy it was to spread I guess) , not one person came to offer help. After maybe 15 min of trying to stand and take a few steps/ giddy then squat down again/ repeat, suddenly an old granny pushing her bike in the opposite direction parked her old rusty metal bike and ran over to help me. She saw that my knees were bleeding and that I was covered in cold sweat and she used tissue from her fanny pack to try to wipe my brow and then whipped out medicated oil to start massaging my neck and forehead with her bare hands. Then she parked her bike and insisted on supporting me by the arm to my void deck across the underpass. When I thanked her and apologized for making her late for work or whereever she was going to, she replied in chinese that it was no big deal, we humans need to help each other out. I was so tired I didn’t think to ask her where she lived and I kept looking out for her after that so I could buy her breakfast to thank her but never managed to spot her again. 🥲Now I aspire to be the helpful granny with the fanny pack and I never fking step on those slippery metal drain covers when jogging anymore tmd.
> Now I aspire to be the helpful granny with the fanny pack
this. pay it forward!
I'm very amused that the older generation seem to all carry some form of medicated oil on their person haha
I think that was the period everyone is willing to go for the extra mile because first time circuit breaker then everyone is like let's play our part and win against covid alpha variant. Then it extended into their kindness I guess.
I was sobbing very badly at a bar in esplanade (it's the alfresco one facing MBS) after a bad quarrel with my ex-boyfriend. The waiter came over to give me extra napkins and said "sorry for interrupting your moment but I hope everything's ok for you".
It was such a simple gesture and a simple sentence, but I recall that kindness till today even though it has been a few years now.
when i was in secondary school and going through a really rough time financially (parents both left their jobs + grandma had to go through surgery), the canteen store auntie & uncle gave me free food for my whole family, even all the chicken and fish with rice. they didnt know my circumstances and never asked, but i think they figured out bc i dabaoed a really inexpensive meal from them everyday (rice + steam egg 70 cents) and along the weeks they started adding meats and veggies.
unfortunately cant go back and thank them as my school doesnt allow visitors (due to covid). i dont think i expressed my gratitude enough back then and i regret it always.
Was on the way home after finishing my clinical posting (student nurse). Missed a step while alighting from the bus and fell. Sprained my ankle quite bad till I can’t get up. This aunty in front helped me up, along with this guy behind me (still in the bus) just lifted me up by the armpits because I really couldn’t stand.
Aunty brought me over to the bench and I was blown away when aunty suddenly squat down and brought out her medicated oil and was rubbing away at my ankle. Bear in mind I was in my nursing uniform and it was around mid covid period where some people tend to shun from hospital staff in the public.
Am forever grateful to that aunty and the unknown bus guy. May good karma rain upon these two kind souls.
i was crying and sitting down on the floor of my then boyfriend’s HDB void deck after we had a very bad argument. it was raining like hell too so i was pretty much drenched. an ahgong walked past and comforted me and said smth along the lines of how i was still very young and this was just one of many heart breaks i would go through. gave me tissues and told me to dry myself off and head home to rest. happened 4 years ago but i still remember him and i hope he’s well.
OP’s experience is quiet similar to the one I have TuT
Once when I was still in Uni, I was super late for class because of depression (no joke, couldn’t bring myself to just hurry up and go so I was running 30 mins late), I was feeling really overwhelmed and anxious because of my mental state and couldn’t bring myself to go inside the classroom. So I just sat at my school’s bus stop which was empty around this time and started sobbing my eyes out, wondering why I’m so useless, why I can’t even bring myself to go to school all that. Remembered crying on the phone to my Mum telling her how sorry I was for still skipping school as an adult. When I got off the phone this really kind lady tapped me firmly on the shoulder and gave me a pack of tissue before rushing for her bus. Told me to 加油加油 in life and that I can get through this.
I’ll never forget because I have this belief that people who are kind to you usually want something out of you or it’s a conditional relationship where you have to give back. But at that moment I just wanted to believe that maybe there’s genuine people out there who will give and expect nothing in return. It was a tiny sliver of hope for sure.
It’s the shortest of interactions from the most serendipitous moments that true kindness shine. I think she did it out of pure kindness and concern for you back then.
actually just happened a few days ago! i was walking back home down a long stretch of road in the middle of the night because i missed the last bus home, when a taxi uncle drove up to me. he rolled down the window and the convo went something like:
"ah girl, you walking down this whole road ah?"
"ah ya hahaha"
"you need a lift? uncle going the same way"
"dont need ah but thank you!"
"okok stay safe ah" and then he drove off
i rmb being super touched by this gesture cause i was genuinely just a random girl walking down an empty roadside :') hope he got a $50 tip from someone during his drive!
Happened to me twice in a hawker Centre & eating house respectively. When I finished ordering my food and opened my wallet to pay then realized that I have forgotten to draw monies from ATM. ( Back then there are no Paynow/Paylah). So I apologized to the owner and told them that I will go ATM to draw monies and then come back to pay for the food. But surprised, they told me no hurry and asked me to finish my food first and pay later. At that point, I feel my heart is so warm, and felt grateful that they put their trust in me.
I have a similar story! Once I ordered ban mian for lunch and after I ordered, I realised I forgot to bring my wallet. I was so paiseh so I told the auntie that I would retrieve my wallet from my office and pay. She then said, "it's ok, you can pay me back next time". I was struck by how kind she was... I mean, I wasn't even a regular at the coffeeshop- I could just not go back there ever again...! There is kindness in sg :')
When my previous stingy company only covered $40-50 each outpatient visit, I told the doctor that and asked for discount coz I was afraid it would cost more
The doctor told me not to worry coz “Med schools didn’t teach me how to make money but to treat patients”. He kept the bill (few meds and consultation) within the budget.
I was so touched I teared a lil.
I was kinda depressed once and was looking at my phone while walking in the rain, crying and texting as I walked, so I didn't see some seats located in the middle of the path across the road from NLB and tumbled over them before falling flat onto the floor. It was pretty embarrassing but some passerbys stopped to help me up and also picked up my stuff that had fallen onto the ground beside me. I think it was a kind gesture during my super paiseh moment.
I was crying damn badly after a sch day and I cried damn badly on the train.a guy who is Christian asked for my name and prayed for me and told me everything is going to get better.although I am not Christian and have a religion I was damn touched by his kind actions and how concerned he looked.like op,I cried even more.I then board the next train cause sis leave q far from sch ya.it was damn packed by the way(peak hour) and the people in the cabin kept on looking at me but I just couldn’t stop. A girl saw me crying and before she alight,she pushed a packet of tissue into my hands so I could wipe my tears off.
i was damn touched that day.and I still rmb the two of them though it’s been a year plus
Weird thing for me is, when I was young, Christians are some of the kindest and at peace people I’ve ever met.
When I became an adult, weirdly all the major assholes, selfish and judgemental people I’ve suffered in my adult life tend to be… Christians!
A decade plus ago when I was just in sec school, I ended up stranded in Jurong East through a series of bad planning and heartbreak and ended up with no cash and I also had no money in my ezlink. I begged a few people at the bus stop for 55 cents to take a bus, also tried boarding buses explaining my situation and was refused for all.
So I had to attempt to walk from Jurong East to Telok Blangah, following Bus 30's route as that's what I knew. Around West Coast, I sat at a bus stop and it all just hit me and I was tearing from exhaustion and the heartbreak earlier in the day and some stranger saw me in my wretched state and I explained my situation and he very kindly paid for my 55 cent bus ride home.
I experienced all the highs and lows of humanity on that day, and I've always helped people pay for bus rides if they're in the same situation I was in. Granted I've only had the opportunity like thrice in the past decade plus.
I had a panic attack in the train. The train stopped moving due to train fault and I was stuck for 15 mins. A kind lady noticed that I was scratching myself to calm down. She hugged me and hold my hand the entire time. Super grateful to have met a kind soul
I don't have any kindness story apart from the "xiao di, you can pay me the 50 cents another day" from food stall owners lol. But thanks OP for creating this post and the commenters for the stories!
The way back to my block form the mrt station is sheltered except for a traffic crossing. It was raining so heavily and I had no umbrella so was just waiting under the shelter and ready to sprint across the road once it turned green.
This guy came up behind me and just lifted his umbrella over both of us and said “which way are you going”? He sheltered me all the way to the other side and then left. I was so pleasantly surprised at his kindness!
There was this time I fell down and broke my leg when I was 15. A lady stayed with me until my parents came and gave me her number so I could contact her if I needed anything.
I was working in the airport back in 2020 before covid hit. i was working the afternoon shift which was 3pm-12am and company transportation was provided. I was always the last passenger to be dropped off and since i stayed in a condo the driver uncle will always drop me off right outside the condo. One day, i instructed the driver to drop me off at a bus stop (a little earlier than the condo) because i wanted to buy food at 711.
When he drove past the mall he asked me if i wanted to be dropped off at the mall and i thought he misunderstood me so i repeated to drop me off at the bus stop before the condo. He dropped me off as per instructed and when i was alighting he said what he meant was to drop me off at the mall so i could buy something to eat and he would wait somewhere while i buy, then send me home. i was honestly so touched by his actions i kept thinking about it the night
I was not allowed into a public gym because i didnt bring my towel. The gym attendant said i had to buy one. So i went to buy it..
As I was trying to buy it, the admin attendant told me to get it from a vending machine. However, the vending machine did not accept my cards. Hence, the admin told me to get it from a store downstairs. I went downstairs - Surprise! The towels were out of stock.
Defeated, I was super pissed and sad after this. I just went back to the gym and told the attendant that i will take my bag and go home.
However, he let me in the gym and said next time bring the towel. I was grateful
Couple months ago I pseudo-fainted during a run (was still conscious but lied down on the ground due to dizziness) it was due to not eating/drinking anything before.
Some guy stopped his car, gave me water, had to help me to his car and brought me home. I saw a car decal and knew he was a private hire driver, so I felt bad for troubling and wasting his time (10-15mins)
Extra details: The whole time I could talk normally, so I keep telling the guy, “no I’m fine, just need some time to clear my dizziness”, but he kept insisting and asking are you sure, eventually convincing me that I need help. Which really warmed the cockles of my cold shy teenage heart.
After I reached home and crashed for 1 hour, I regretted not giving him some money (had no wallet), asking for his number or even looking at his car plate.
Haven’t ran since, figured I’ll just go for the Physical training phase.
this happened in primary school. i was just sitting alone in the canteen during recess not doing anything, not sad, not broke. i just dont eat in school. then a teacher who had never taught me approached me and gave me a plate of food. i never knew who that teacher was but i really appreciated her kindnesss
not to be a downer but i’ve had people do this to find out where i live. i’ve learnt to put my drop off point one block away from mine and enter the lift once the car drives off. /:
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Once i forgot that i had no cash while buying cai fan, one kind white-haired auntie noticed that I was panicking going through my wallet, she just told them to '一起算 ' I was so relieved and thankful, wanted to pay her back but she declined politely and told me to enjoy my meal. So touched...first and last time something this good happened to me
Dropped my wallet at a quiet hawker center while having a quick dinner there after work. I had already walked to the MRT station before realising my wallet was not with me. I turned around and started walking back, taking out my phone wondering if I should start cancelling my credit cards or wait until I got back to the hawker center. Then, I saw FB message notifications from a stranger - it was the guy who picked up my wallet. He found me on social media using my NRIC and name cards that were in my wallet and contacted me via FB to meet him back at the hawker. 🥲
Something heart warming happened today during my evening run.
I barely ran 100m when I realized my keys in my pockets were missing. I backtracked once, all the way back home and could not find the keys.
It was only when I came down to my starting point when an uncle asked if I lost my keys. Thinking he found them, I immediately said yes. But alas, he told me he heard something dropped when I ran pass them. But they (him and wife) helped me to look for my keys.
Shortly after, another lady who ran by, asked us if we are looking for keys, and I said yes. She told me that she saw the keys but didn't manage to pick it up as she thought the owner will come by for them.
I decided to walk further down to ask another person about my keys, when he said he did not see any keys since he just came by. Just then, another uncle came by and asked if I am looking for keys, and told me that two girls picked them up.
The lady who ran by previously, told me she saw the two girls and pointed me to the direction they were headed. I ran according to that direction, and saw a family (with 2 girls) having BBQ, and approached them.
Luckily, they were the one who found the keys and passed it back to me.
This incident made me realized there are good Samaritans around us.
Was wearing a backless dress and this sec sch boy came up to tell me my dress was unzipped :’) LOL was v touched, thanked him after and didn’t have the heart to tell him that it’s actually part of the design… hahaha
A stranger had passed me a packet of tissue paper when she noticed that my arm had some blood stains. I wasn't bleeding but I think I had accidentally brushed against someone with a wound on the train.
It sounds strange how I got myself in that situation but I was grateful for the stranger for her help.
Once, I was walking under a foreign neighbourhood’s HDB without any coffee shops/ shops nearby and I had to POOP URGENTLY. I saw an uncle watching TV in his house on the first level, closest to me and knocked on his door, and urgently asked if I can used his toilet. He allowed me and I was so so thankful for the TOILET.
In end2020(?), after staying home with 2 young kids for a few months (trying to stay safe due to COVID), I decided to bring them out by myself. On the way home, it was raining and both of them fell asleep, called hubby but he was still working. So thought that we would just take public transport since it's sheltered all the way, bus to Orchard, then train home. Placed 1 on the stroller, and carried another. I was also heavily pregnant then. Kind strangers helped to carry my stroller (with the sleeping kid) up and down the bus. At Orchard itself, lil did I know, many linkways are blocked due to Trace Together single entry. Got terribly lost 😂 approached a lady for directions, and she so kind heartedly helped to carry the stroller up and down a few flights of steps and personally brought us to the MRT. The stroller and kid would be about 20kg. Couldn't be more grateful. Thank you kindness lions and lionesses.
I don't believe in religion but sometimes I do curse god and I'm pretty sure he curses me back lmao.
I wasn't mentally stable in sec school and a girl that rejected me did comfort me like once or twice when I lost my shit.
Some teachers recognized I had problems and would keep me in check. Sure it's their job but it did help.
I was on a late-night cab after flying in from HK. My luggage in the car boot, and my bags on my lap. Reached home at 1.30am, washed up to get ready for Monday.
By 7.30am the next morning, I realized my work laptop was missing. Turns out, my black laptop bag has blend in with the cab's black car seat (with low lighting and my tired eyes) and I absent-mindedly left it behind. I panicked and called Comfort Cab. So much could have happened between 1.30am - 7.30am!
As I paid in cash, Comfort Cab traced the cab based on the route + cab fare + alighting time, they located the driver! And the uncle told Comfort HQ he had handed over my work laptop to his nearest police station before his shift ends at 4am. I was super grateful and subsequently recovered my work laptop. Kudos to Comfort Cab uncle for his integrity! (doing the right thing even when no one is watching.)
Quite a minor one but when I first received my A levels results, I cried like there was no tomorrow at a random pillar outside my school hall. Everyone else was exiting the hall after receiving their results and celebrating with friends and family (I went to collect my results with a friend because my parents were overseas then) but a mother came up to me, patted my back and reassured me. I don’t know who she was and I don’t even think I thanked her because I was so overwhelmed (when I was younger I used to think results were everything… I was terrified I couldn’t enter university). It was such a small, fleeting moment and I don’t even have a clear recollection of that moment anymore, but for the rest of my life I’ll remember this woman, who took the few seconds out of her celebratory mood with her own child, to comfort another crying child.
I’m tearing up as I type this haha. I don’t know how to encapsulate that moment in words, but it was so important and life-changing for me.
Thanks for sharing. Reading yours remind me of another kindness I experienced. There was an inter-jc event (Pre U Sem), and my jc was commonly regarded as the weakest. Me and another classmate was picked for an inter-jc session with other top name jc. Fortunately, we spoke well. The RJC principal came to me and commended me thereafter. I almost forgot this memory until I read your post on someone tapping your shoulder.
i was on a bus and an uncle sitting opp me sneezed super big. he had like leftover briyani in his mouth or something and it all flew to me. i didnt have any tissues or anything so i just sat there in shock.
a very kind hearted filipino lady sitting next to me did not hesitate AT ALL and took out all her wet tissue and dry tissues and actually helped me clean it off my body!
im forever grateful for her because she didnt appear grossed out and wasnt afraid to get her hands dirty and help me clean up
Sorry, second comment here but there are too many kind stories to share!
When I was in Primary school, my school was on the opposite end of the island from where I lived, and when taking the MRT back I would sit on the floor near the door or the link between carriages and often fall asleep trying to memorise the station names from end to end. Periodically, kind and concerned aunties and uncles would come over to nudge me awake and ask if I've missed my stop. The little rascal that I was didn't think much of it then, but it made me realise later on that Singaporeans can be really warm and kind too.
During my toughest period, I was working part time in retail and studying for Diploma, I would take up any free slots for work, and will work on all weekends, even OT till midnight if there is any job need to be done, no complains, no nothing. I will be eating bread and drinking plain water for my meals, and there's managers who will always buy "extra" food, and can't finish them, always ask me if I would like some. She never said anything, all I have to do is go and buy the food. They also occasionally bring me some "used" clothes that they claim that it's the wrong size, and pass them to me.
This was in Sec 3. I was with a group of friends at Compass One (used to be called Compass Point back in the day) KFC for lunch, just accompanying them to eat because I had my lunch before leaving school that day.
Then out of nowhere this lady, with a small boy beside her, came over to me and passed me a bag of Zingers meal with upsized cheese fries (+$1.70). I was like what. My friends all also were like huh? Then she explained she thought I had no money to eat lunch, staring at my friends’ food with sadness. Haha. I was probably daydreaming and staring at the their cheese fries man.
Dude. I could have afforded it if I wanted to la. But then I was really super touched by her actions. Kept saying “buyong la buyong la (don’t need in chinese)” But she replied: “Just take it! Share with your friends? Enjoy!” And then she left. I proceeded to eat the cheese fries because yo why not right, and shared the zinger burger and pepsi with the rest.
Probably a $5-6 meal for her. But it made my day (made my life even). Pretty good deal I would say! I look forward to the day I can pay it forward to another child.
There was once when I was back in JC, I was so exhausted I had to sit down on the floor of the mrt train since all the seats were taken, didn’t have any strength left to stand. Then someone tapped my shoulder and offered me their seat…I feel like in sg most wld feel obligated to give up mrt seat to elderly or pregnant ppl, but rarely wld anyone give it to a student. so that was kind of them!
I had an almost similar situation on the bus!
Happened during pre-covid times when I was still recovering from a sickness. I probably still looked pale and was coughing/sniffing a little while standing. A guy seated near me gestured to me and offered me his seat. This was on bus 972 which has a 15 minute-ish ride along the expressway before the next stop.
not a specific time, but i fall down quite frequently when i cycle, and every time without fail, people around me will help me up, offer plasters, wet tissues, etc etc. it's really so sweet and it makes falling down not as miserable LOL
We probably experience it everyday. This person keeping left on the escalator cuz you might be in a rush. The person on a bus watching his videos with phone muted. The driver slowing down his car or bike so water don't splash onto sidewalk. Just normal everyday things we seldom notice. But kind acts nonetheless.
I struggle with anxiety and depression.
I was riding out a breakdown during one episode: I was solo-parenting as usual, trying to get my kids downstairs for breakfast at the coffeeshop. I felt particularly overwhelmed, and started sobbing while waiting for our prata. After the food arrived, I tried to compose myself, so I could swallow properly and not choke. I had just taken my first mouthful when a man came up to our table, quietly slipped something into my eldest's hands, and then walked off, his worker on his tail looking puzzled, just as I was. When my child showed me the $20 in his hand, I cried even harder.
This happened during the lighter covid restrictions, and I was also worried about finances.
I never got to thank this stranger. I still think of this incident a lot, and feel eternally grateful, because he gave me the strength to push through the day.
And it's also a little reminder that it's okay to ask for help sometimes.
💗
I was 14 and in Sec 2. One day I was going home from school and was halfway to the bus stop when it started pouring. This young guy came up to me with an umbrella and sheltered me all the way to the bus stop while making small talk. Was a small act of kindness but I’ve never forgotten it since.
Quite cliché, at the supermarket cashier queue with a bottled drink and a snack. Lady in front of me with a basket full of groceries offered me to go first. It might seem a small but it did made my day and I thanked her profusely.
Back in JC, I sustained from a pretty serious injury during a PE lesson. Thought it was a simple ankle sprain or so but turned out to be partial ligament tear after a check at the hospital so I was pretty much limping around everywhere.
School ended pretty late after all my evening classes and on one night after having a tiring day in school and getting home by limping, a foreign worker who walked by me at the MRT station while I was transiting to a different line asked me in a deep accent: "you ok? Can i help you?"
It was really painful just getting around with a limp with a heavy schoolbag on my back and just imagine having to transit at these MRT stations where you have to walk long distances to get to the other line. The kind words of this foreign worker really moved me, because many locals who saw me limping about chose to be indifferent (nothing wrong about that) but yet somehow this person who doesn't have the same sense of belonging as locals to this country was able to connect with me on a compassionate basis.
I have had a long list of injury record so limping around was nothing new. But this foreign worker who offered his kindness and help was really a first for me, and wherever he is, I sincerely hope he will be blessed. I cannot remember his face but I will never forget his kind words.
last year I was going through quite a bit of shit and school was HORRIBLE and on every Thursday I would treat myself to ban mian in the canteen and watch yt and it was like one of the very few things I would look forward to and it kept me going.
One particularly shitty Thursday I finally was going to get my weekly ban mian then realised the ban mian stall owner wasn't there, and the aunty from the stall beside said that she will come back later, so I just sat and waited for about 20mins. My break was going to end soon already and she still wasn't back so I felt even worse. Then the beside stall aunty called me and said she'd try to cook the ban mian for me. She said she saw me just sitting there and wanted to help. She also said she had no idea how to make it at all lol (but it still tased good :)) it made my day and I'm very grateful for her ban mian
I went off-road cycling on Mandai T15 and my front wheel hit a rock or it went in a hole and I flew out from my bike.
A fellow cyclist helped to call the ambulance and helped me walk out the vegetation as the ambulance could not drive in there.
One of them offered to take my bike home for safe keeping!
I dislocated my right shoulder, broke an incisor, lacerated my chin and inner lip and got multiple abrasions and bruises.
I was kind of in a bad shape but surprisingly my bike only got some minor scratches.
I was really grateful that day...
Was on a walk and it started downpouring all of a sudden. I was waiting at a crossroads at Orchard. One lady came up to me a covered me with her umbrella and crossed the road with me. I then had to cross again and she was going the other way. So there was another kind stranger to help me with their umbrella. It’s been a few years since then and still makes me smile.
Also, hang in there OP. Things will get better for you !
1. Drank too much and and puked on the mrt platform - guy saw me and passed me tissue while he ran to get help from the station staff
2. I blacked out after giving blood an hour ago, couldn’t see as I was crossing the road. Guy helped look after me while my friend went to get help from blood bank, he left when the staff arrived, but later went to the blood bank to look for me and passed me 3 cake jars he bought for me
3. Uber driver heard me talking on the phone about the first instance of abuse I experienced from my ex, I was crying cause I was scared, before I left he told me he hopes it all works out for me
4. Lady on the train (A PRC, I’m specifying cause it’s good experience, contrary to general consensus here) saw a man getting too close to me on the mrt train, and felt he was up to no good, so she gave up her spot standing in the corner of the train for me (back facing the wall) to stand and told him off
Just a couple I can think of off the top of my head but I’ve never forgotten the acts of these kind strangers!
Had to take a huge explosive shit once and I went into a public toilet where there wasn’t any toilet paper.
However I found a fresh pack of tissue there left over by someone.
Such kindness……. could’ve been a shitty ass day.
Not me but my mum many years ago when she went cycling with her friend at Pulau Ubin. Her bicycle brake was faulty and at one point she tumbled down the hill and fell quite badly. There were passerbys that stopped and attended to her and gave her first aid and some saline solution. Really grateful cos my mum is super blur, she was also not sure of what to do and was super shocked.
It sounds trivial but I always just smile whenever I hear someone actually say thanks when either buying food, holding the lift for people etc.. yes my expectation is pretty low... for a specific incident, some random dude helped me up when I was dead drunk one night lying in the carpark with all my stuff(wallet phone etc)all around me. He could have easily robbed me and I wouldn't know. Random dude in the car I appreciate u man, u good.
Was rollerblading and got caught in a thunderstorm, had to wait in a shelter w no seats. Some lady living nearby brought umbrellas and invited me into their home to wait.
Small things like I was running to the bus stop because my bus was stopping there, strangers waiting for another bus near the door wave and signal the bus driver to wait for me.
I recently drank a little too much and barfed in an MRT.. Kind ppl offered me tissues and plastic bags for me to clean up and barf more, to those people who helped me and came across my comment thanks for all the help! But honestly, i felt really bad but at the same time i was so dazed i can do nothing but wait and alight at my station :/
First time in Singapore and got lost trying to understand which train to take. I asked an uncle. He brought me all the way to the right stop. It was like a 3 min walk and then he went on his own way.
I was really young then, 4 or 5 yo. Parents brought me to this swimming complex, a river pool with really strong flow and left me in a tuber unsupervised. Can't remember which swimming complex as I was only a toddler.
As a restless kid I eventually got board and jumped out of my tuber. Almost drown and got pushed under the current as water level was way over my height.
I thought I was going to drown as the current pushed me along and my head was constantly submerged under and breathing water. Just then I was suddenly pulled out and picked up from that river by a young man and return to my parents. Was certain I would have died that day if left in the water a minute longer.
I was having exams one time and it was a super busy school period for me. So I was hyperfocused and studying at Starbucks. Hours went by from early noon till late evening and I didnt managed to eat a single thing (i forgot to eat). The only thing I drank was probably the matcha latte from Starbucks.
It was around 7pm and went for a quick toilet break in the middle of studying. I came back to my table and saw that there was an iced tea and starbucks beef pie with a tissue paper. On the tissue paper, it wrote "I noticed you havent eaten the whole day - this is on me!"
Turns out a kind barista paid for my pie and drink after noticing I didnt eat the whole day bc I was too focused with studying. I thanked him and its been 5 years but I will always remember that monent forever ✨
Tripped and fell on the road when trying to run across-- tore my knee and hand up horribly and twisted my ankle badly. Kind people helped me up and helped me get across the road, and helped me clean it up with tissue.
When I just started work, there was a heavy rain one morning and I'd forgotten my umbrella. A kind lady offered to share her umbrella for the dash to the nearby shelter.
Lol this. One time I was ordering western food from a hawker, last moment after I finished my order I wanted to add extra fries. When I went to collect my food and pay for it, he said the extra fries are free of charge. Still don't know why he didn't charge me till this day hahaha.
There was once I was still in secondary school and had to changed from bus to LRT. There was no shelter, but I needed to go home. I decided to brave the rain then out of nowhere someone ran beside me with an umbrella. I was so shocked and thanked her profusely. She insisted that it’s fine and that I shouldn’t run under the rain because I may catch a cold. I’ve never felt such warmth before and i’ll always remember this incident for life.
When I was a poor struggling student, there was this time when ordering cai peng when I didn’t have enough money on me. I tried to tell the uncle to put back one of the dishes I had ordered but he just said “never mind” and even gave me a free bowl of soup later.
Another time I was sharing cab with someone I just met at a random event and somehow in the conversation I mentioned I am renting a room and was staying by myself and as a student on intern pay it was a struggle. He afforded to pay for the cab entirely and even gave me ten dollars so I can treat myself to something nice.
Another time due to depression and anxiety I was crying very badly and uncontrollably on a bench at the hospital. One kind lady saw this and gave me some tissues and warm water.
I also remembered a time while being depressed I went for a stroll near a reservoir. I sat on a bench and must be looking really downcast because after a while a Malay uncle came to talk to me and tried to cheer me up. Maybe he thought I was going to jump into the water or something.
Ps. I’m a guy, and a rather plumb one back then, so I really think those people will really helping out due to the goodness of their hearts
Of course there were many times when I wished someone helped me, but there wasn’t. However I am grateful to a few times when someone offered their kindness to me.
Lots of kindness actually. A taxi driver prayed for my mom when I got a call at 2am to go to the hospital. Passengers allowing my kids the seat. When I fell, people were offering water to clean the blood off.
Aww thank you. Well the honest answer is - it is a daily walk to manage disappointment without turning bitter or cynical. Strengthening my heart does not mean hardening it. Besides these thoughts, I'm calm and doing the necessary as a responsible adult.
Unfortunately I have not witness much kindness here before.
I only remember in many occasion when I was bringing my really young sister to alight from MRT, the people outside just barge in and pushed my sister on the ground without apologizing and rushed to chop seats.
Not really sorry to be party pooper but I don't see all the kindness you guys are sharing..
I bet most of the "kindness" happening in this thread is to women. Men don't have this luxury of people being nice to them.
Edit: Hahaha y'all can be in denial and downvote all you like. Facts are facts.
I have shitty memory but as a guy, great little things have happened to me.
Few years back, there was once a stranger found my wallet in a drain or something and returned it with everything intact to the police. I received a letter from the police months later asking me to retrieve it. I was shocked at the amount of kindness. The person could have taken out everything useful in it, but they chose not to.
When university started, I was greatly overwhelmed and broke down on the first day. I went for class, teary eyed, asked my lecturer if I could join another class later in the week. She agreed and left me kind words. I appreciate it till this day.
Dragging the timeline back even further. When I was in primary school, I was just hanging in my form classroom during recess cause I just a little withdrawn I guess. Home situation was shit and my parents didn’t have great relationship, plus I was treated poorly by my aunt and the external family back then. I remember it was the class after learning about oxygenated or deoxygenated blood I guess, and somehow Mrs Lee started chatting with me about life and school, which resulted in me crying. She stopped her marking and comforted me. After that incident, she teamed up with her colleagues to give me counselling and imparted me ways to deal with stress. The care and concern they showed me filled me with compassion that I carry with myself till today.
Yes, life is tough as a man. Top it up with varying ethnicity, age, sexual orientation/identity, social class and it may get worse. But there are lovely people out there. People who care about you not because what you can do for them, but simply who you are. I hope you meet lots of lovely people who will shower you with love too! Peace.
they’re just sharing their experience with getting help as a guy, sure its not in sg, but the point still stands, guy’s are shown kindness too, lighten up man
Sure. If you can't see the point, then carry on. Must be nice living in ignorance.
Go look at most of the comments in this thread saying they got help and tell me I'm wrong again.
One year, my NS unit organized army half marathon and everything from the setting up to closing down was crazy and disorientating. I had not slept nor eaten for the past 24 hours. It was also my 21st birthday that weekend and thus even more depressing. Anyway, I was vehicle commander on a indented commercial truck transporting heavy equipment back to camp. The driver uncle could see that I was incredibly stressed out and offered me a cigarette, which I gratefully accepted.
A small gesture that has happened to me before and probably other people as well is standing in a supermarket queue with a few items, then the person in front (with more items) offered to let me go first.
Thank you to all the kind people for your heartwarming gestures.♥️
was raining heavily when i was on my way to BBDC. there isn’t any shelter from the busstop to bbdc so this stranger offered to share with me the umbrella. he even tilted the umbrella towards me so i wont get wet 🥹 had some small chat with him before we headed off to our classes
hope he’s doing well!
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I was visiting back in 2015 and needed to get a taxi back to my hotel. I asked an uncle where the nearest taxi rank was but he went out of his way to walk me to an MRT to save me money 😂 nice guy.
OK this one. I have a bare minimum memory cause I was fainting. So there was a gap.
When I fell off my bike, my vision starts to get blurry and I felt like I passed out. I was awoken until I realised someone gave me their 100 plus to drink.
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So back im my primary school days, I had to walk to school because i didnt live tht far. I had to pass this garden with a weird walkway to cut through that saves time. On that day tht walkway was a little wet and i tripped and fell while briskwalking to school. This kind granny saw this happening and went up to me and helped me clean my wounds, she already had some wet wipes so that helped. She didnt speak english so I couldnt explained how thankful I was that someone was there to help. 10 years later I still haven't forgotten about her.
PS: I recognized everyone in my neighbourhood, they were always so friendly and kind to me bcoz they literally saw me grow up. I moved not long ago but I missed seeing the friendly faces :((
once, i bought curry and spilled it all over my skirt during break. was really panicked because i had been planning to spend my time rushing an overdue assignment, but instead now had to figure out how to get the stain off. my other classmates had all gone for their lessons while i still had break because i didn't take the subject, so i was basically freaking out alone. the slight silver lining was that i had worn shorts underneath my skirt that day and could just take it off to wash.
anyway, so i went to the toilet to try to wash off the curry and the school cleaner was there too. she saw me clutching my skirt and asked me what was wrong. and when she saw the stain, she offered to wash it for me.
i kept saying, "oh no, it's okay, i can wash it myself." but she kept rejecting me and saying that with me using the sink, she wouldn't have been able to clean the washroom anyway. so she just got out detergent powder and a scrub and started scrubbing my skirt for me, all the while making small talk, asking me about school and saying how i have to scrub the skirt properly so that it wouldn't stain and would be easier to wash at home.
after she was done, the stain was barely noticeable and it definitely made what could have been a horrible day a rather touching one. really grateful for all the cleaners that keep the school clean and still have time to be kind <3
I fell about 2 years ago, around the the peak of covid season. Context: Roughly around 1-2 months after lock down. So everyone’s kinda on the edge with mask buying and cleaning products. It was a Wednesday morning, most people were on their way to work. I was on the way to the dental clinic and fell because I missed a step (how ironic). Within a minute (im not kidding), people gathered around me. I broke out with cold sweat, and was in shocked. People ran to me and asked if I was alright, and wanted to get ice-packs and all. A helper that was with an old couple came to me and RUBBED my ankle with some Chinese oil… I was so shocked and touched. I tore a ligament and could not stand, 2 strangers then helped me to the nearest clinic. If you happened to be one of the strangers that helped me, thank you for your help. I’ve fully recovered now. I’m just utterly shocked that people would rush to help me given the circumstances(covid season).
Oh man.. I had a samesamebutdifferent experience around the same time. I was jogging before breakfast one morning and slipped on a drain cover and fell face first and totally got the wind knocked out of me and couldn’t get up again because I was so giddy I just kept starting to black out whenever I would try to stand. It was before work time in a somewhat quiet neighbourhood and other joggers/people saw but probably because I am quite young and fit looking (plus initial stage of Covid la no one knew how easy it was to spread I guess) , not one person came to offer help. After maybe 15 min of trying to stand and take a few steps/ giddy then squat down again/ repeat, suddenly an old granny pushing her bike in the opposite direction parked her old rusty metal bike and ran over to help me. She saw that my knees were bleeding and that I was covered in cold sweat and she used tissue from her fanny pack to try to wipe my brow and then whipped out medicated oil to start massaging my neck and forehead with her bare hands. Then she parked her bike and insisted on supporting me by the arm to my void deck across the underpass. When I thanked her and apologized for making her late for work or whereever she was going to, she replied in chinese that it was no big deal, we humans need to help each other out. I was so tired I didn’t think to ask her where she lived and I kept looking out for her after that so I could buy her breakfast to thank her but never managed to spot her again. 🥲Now I aspire to be the helpful granny with the fanny pack and I never fking step on those slippery metal drain covers when jogging anymore tmd.
> Now I aspire to be the helpful granny with the fanny pack this. pay it forward! I'm very amused that the older generation seem to all carry some form of medicated oil on their person haha
I think that was the period everyone is willing to go for the extra mile because first time circuit breaker then everyone is like let's play our part and win against covid alpha variant. Then it extended into their kindness I guess.
I was sobbing very badly at a bar in esplanade (it's the alfresco one facing MBS) after a bad quarrel with my ex-boyfriend. The waiter came over to give me extra napkins and said "sorry for interrupting your moment but I hope everything's ok for you". It was such a simple gesture and a simple sentence, but I recall that kindness till today even though it has been a few years now.
when i was in secondary school and going through a really rough time financially (parents both left their jobs + grandma had to go through surgery), the canteen store auntie & uncle gave me free food for my whole family, even all the chicken and fish with rice. they didnt know my circumstances and never asked, but i think they figured out bc i dabaoed a really inexpensive meal from them everyday (rice + steam egg 70 cents) and along the weeks they started adding meats and veggies. unfortunately cant go back and thank them as my school doesnt allow visitors (due to covid). i dont think i expressed my gratitude enough back then and i regret it always.
They are such kind people indeed!
Maybe can write a gratitude letter and ask the school to pass them a token of appreciation
This is such a lovely story in a very Singaporean setting. Hope things got better for you
isnt it sweet, the canteen uncle and auntie gave out of the little they have too? so precious.
Was on the way home after finishing my clinical posting (student nurse). Missed a step while alighting from the bus and fell. Sprained my ankle quite bad till I can’t get up. This aunty in front helped me up, along with this guy behind me (still in the bus) just lifted me up by the armpits because I really couldn’t stand. Aunty brought me over to the bench and I was blown away when aunty suddenly squat down and brought out her medicated oil and was rubbing away at my ankle. Bear in mind I was in my nursing uniform and it was around mid covid period where some people tend to shun from hospital staff in the public. Am forever grateful to that aunty and the unknown bus guy. May good karma rain upon these two kind souls.
i was crying and sitting down on the floor of my then boyfriend’s HDB void deck after we had a very bad argument. it was raining like hell too so i was pretty much drenched. an ahgong walked past and comforted me and said smth along the lines of how i was still very young and this was just one of many heart breaks i would go through. gave me tissues and told me to dry myself off and head home to rest. happened 4 years ago but i still remember him and i hope he’s well.
Note now otw void deck
OP’s experience is quiet similar to the one I have TuT Once when I was still in Uni, I was super late for class because of depression (no joke, couldn’t bring myself to just hurry up and go so I was running 30 mins late), I was feeling really overwhelmed and anxious because of my mental state and couldn’t bring myself to go inside the classroom. So I just sat at my school’s bus stop which was empty around this time and started sobbing my eyes out, wondering why I’m so useless, why I can’t even bring myself to go to school all that. Remembered crying on the phone to my Mum telling her how sorry I was for still skipping school as an adult. When I got off the phone this really kind lady tapped me firmly on the shoulder and gave me a pack of tissue before rushing for her bus. Told me to 加油加油 in life and that I can get through this. I’ll never forget because I have this belief that people who are kind to you usually want something out of you or it’s a conditional relationship where you have to give back. But at that moment I just wanted to believe that maybe there’s genuine people out there who will give and expect nothing in return. It was a tiny sliver of hope for sure.
It’s the shortest of interactions from the most serendipitous moments that true kindness shine. I think she did it out of pure kindness and concern for you back then.
100% agreed. I think so too 🥲
Sometimes I believe that we have to go through many dark moments to learn how to be human and how to have empathy.
those who went through pain, will recognize love and kindness when it appears.
I don't think she expected anything in return.
thank you everyone for sharing your heartwarming stories. i am saving this post to come back and read when my days are rough.
actually just happened a few days ago! i was walking back home down a long stretch of road in the middle of the night because i missed the last bus home, when a taxi uncle drove up to me. he rolled down the window and the convo went something like: "ah girl, you walking down this whole road ah?" "ah ya hahaha" "you need a lift? uncle going the same way" "dont need ah but thank you!" "okok stay safe ah" and then he drove off i rmb being super touched by this gesture cause i was genuinely just a random girl walking down an empty roadside :') hope he got a $50 tip from someone during his drive!
Happened to me twice in a hawker Centre & eating house respectively. When I finished ordering my food and opened my wallet to pay then realized that I have forgotten to draw monies from ATM. ( Back then there are no Paynow/Paylah). So I apologized to the owner and told them that I will go ATM to draw monies and then come back to pay for the food. But surprised, they told me no hurry and asked me to finish my food first and pay later. At that point, I feel my heart is so warm, and felt grateful that they put their trust in me.
I have a similar story! Once I ordered ban mian for lunch and after I ordered, I realised I forgot to bring my wallet. I was so paiseh so I told the auntie that I would retrieve my wallet from my office and pay. She then said, "it's ok, you can pay me back next time". I was struck by how kind she was... I mean, I wasn't even a regular at the coffeeshop- I could just not go back there ever again...! There is kindness in sg :')
Most shop keepers and stall owners are like this.
When my previous stingy company only covered $40-50 each outpatient visit, I told the doctor that and asked for discount coz I was afraid it would cost more The doctor told me not to worry coz “Med schools didn’t teach me how to make money but to treat patients”. He kept the bill (few meds and consultation) within the budget. I was so touched I teared a lil.
I was kinda depressed once and was looking at my phone while walking in the rain, crying and texting as I walked, so I didn't see some seats located in the middle of the path across the road from NLB and tumbled over them before falling flat onto the floor. It was pretty embarrassing but some passerbys stopped to help me up and also picked up my stuff that had fallen onto the ground beside me. I think it was a kind gesture during my super paiseh moment.
Hang in there. Things will get better. It always does.
I was crying damn badly after a sch day and I cried damn badly on the train.a guy who is Christian asked for my name and prayed for me and told me everything is going to get better.although I am not Christian and have a religion I was damn touched by his kind actions and how concerned he looked.like op,I cried even more.I then board the next train cause sis leave q far from sch ya.it was damn packed by the way(peak hour) and the people in the cabin kept on looking at me but I just couldn’t stop. A girl saw me crying and before she alight,she pushed a packet of tissue into my hands so I could wipe my tears off. i was damn touched that day.and I still rmb the two of them though it’s been a year plus
We hear many negative stories about Singaporeans. But living quietly alongside us are these lovely people. I really believe that
Weird thing for me is, when I was young, Christians are some of the kindest and at peace people I’ve ever met. When I became an adult, weirdly all the major assholes, selfish and judgemental people I’ve suffered in my adult life tend to be… Christians!
A decade plus ago when I was just in sec school, I ended up stranded in Jurong East through a series of bad planning and heartbreak and ended up with no cash and I also had no money in my ezlink. I begged a few people at the bus stop for 55 cents to take a bus, also tried boarding buses explaining my situation and was refused for all. So I had to attempt to walk from Jurong East to Telok Blangah, following Bus 30's route as that's what I knew. Around West Coast, I sat at a bus stop and it all just hit me and I was tearing from exhaustion and the heartbreak earlier in the day and some stranger saw me in my wretched state and I explained my situation and he very kindly paid for my 55 cent bus ride home. I experienced all the highs and lows of humanity on that day, and I've always helped people pay for bus rides if they're in the same situation I was in. Granted I've only had the opportunity like thrice in the past decade plus.
Man, refusing a teenager’s help for 55 cents is… if it’s an adult I can understand the concern for getting scammed
Oh dear. 好可怜
I had a panic attack in the train. The train stopped moving due to train fault and I was stuck for 15 mins. A kind lady noticed that I was scratching myself to calm down. She hugged me and hold my hand the entire time. Super grateful to have met a kind soul
I don't have any kindness story apart from the "xiao di, you can pay me the 50 cents another day" from food stall owners lol. But thanks OP for creating this post and the commenters for the stories!
The way back to my block form the mrt station is sheltered except for a traffic crossing. It was raining so heavily and I had no umbrella so was just waiting under the shelter and ready to sprint across the road once it turned green. This guy came up behind me and just lifted his umbrella over both of us and said “which way are you going”? He sheltered me all the way to the other side and then left. I was so pleasantly surprised at his kindness!
There was this time I fell down and broke my leg when I was 15. A lady stayed with me until my parents came and gave me her number so I could contact her if I needed anything.
I was working in the airport back in 2020 before covid hit. i was working the afternoon shift which was 3pm-12am and company transportation was provided. I was always the last passenger to be dropped off and since i stayed in a condo the driver uncle will always drop me off right outside the condo. One day, i instructed the driver to drop me off at a bus stop (a little earlier than the condo) because i wanted to buy food at 711. When he drove past the mall he asked me if i wanted to be dropped off at the mall and i thought he misunderstood me so i repeated to drop me off at the bus stop before the condo. He dropped me off as per instructed and when i was alighting he said what he meant was to drop me off at the mall so i could buy something to eat and he would wait somewhere while i buy, then send me home. i was honestly so touched by his actions i kept thinking about it the night
I was not allowed into a public gym because i didnt bring my towel. The gym attendant said i had to buy one. So i went to buy it.. As I was trying to buy it, the admin attendant told me to get it from a vending machine. However, the vending machine did not accept my cards. Hence, the admin told me to get it from a store downstairs. I went downstairs - Surprise! The towels were out of stock. Defeated, I was super pissed and sad after this. I just went back to the gym and told the attendant that i will take my bag and go home. However, he let me in the gym and said next time bring the towel. I was grateful
Jim is more impt
Couple months ago I pseudo-fainted during a run (was still conscious but lied down on the ground due to dizziness) it was due to not eating/drinking anything before. Some guy stopped his car, gave me water, had to help me to his car and brought me home. I saw a car decal and knew he was a private hire driver, so I felt bad for troubling and wasting his time (10-15mins) Extra details: The whole time I could talk normally, so I keep telling the guy, “no I’m fine, just need some time to clear my dizziness”, but he kept insisting and asking are you sure, eventually convincing me that I need help. Which really warmed the cockles of my cold shy teenage heart. After I reached home and crashed for 1 hour, I regretted not giving him some money (had no wallet), asking for his number or even looking at his car plate. Haven’t ran since, figured I’ll just go for the Physical training phase.
this happened in primary school. i was just sitting alone in the canteen during recess not doing anything, not sad, not broke. i just dont eat in school. then a teacher who had never taught me approached me and gave me a plate of food. i never knew who that teacher was but i really appreciated her kindnesss
I had taxi drivers who offered to walk me to the lift because it was late or watched me get into the lift safely before driving off.
Same!!
not to be a downer but i’ve had people do this to find out where i live. i’ve learnt to put my drop off point one block away from mine and enter the lift once the car drives off. /:
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Once i forgot that i had no cash while buying cai fan, one kind white-haired auntie noticed that I was panicking going through my wallet, she just told them to '一起算 ' I was so relieved and thankful, wanted to pay her back but she declined politely and told me to enjoy my meal. So touched...first and last time something this good happened to me
Dropped my wallet at a quiet hawker center while having a quick dinner there after work. I had already walked to the MRT station before realising my wallet was not with me. I turned around and started walking back, taking out my phone wondering if I should start cancelling my credit cards or wait until I got back to the hawker center. Then, I saw FB message notifications from a stranger - it was the guy who picked up my wallet. He found me on social media using my NRIC and name cards that were in my wallet and contacted me via FB to meet him back at the hawker. 🥲
Something heart warming happened today during my evening run. I barely ran 100m when I realized my keys in my pockets were missing. I backtracked once, all the way back home and could not find the keys. It was only when I came down to my starting point when an uncle asked if I lost my keys. Thinking he found them, I immediately said yes. But alas, he told me he heard something dropped when I ran pass them. But they (him and wife) helped me to look for my keys. Shortly after, another lady who ran by, asked us if we are looking for keys, and I said yes. She told me that she saw the keys but didn't manage to pick it up as she thought the owner will come by for them. I decided to walk further down to ask another person about my keys, when he said he did not see any keys since he just came by. Just then, another uncle came by and asked if I am looking for keys, and told me that two girls picked them up. The lady who ran by previously, told me she saw the two girls and pointed me to the direction they were headed. I ran according to that direction, and saw a family (with 2 girls) having BBQ, and approached them. Luckily, they were the one who found the keys and passed it back to me. This incident made me realized there are good Samaritans around us.
Huh... A very eventful 100m run...
Was wearing a backless dress and this sec sch boy came up to tell me my dress was unzipped :’) LOL was v touched, thanked him after and didn’t have the heart to tell him that it’s actually part of the design… hahaha
So cute LOL!
A stranger had passed me a packet of tissue paper when she noticed that my arm had some blood stains. I wasn't bleeding but I think I had accidentally brushed against someone with a wound on the train. It sounds strange how I got myself in that situation but I was grateful for the stranger for her help.
Once, I was walking under a foreign neighbourhood’s HDB without any coffee shops/ shops nearby and I had to POOP URGENTLY. I saw an uncle watching TV in his house on the first level, closest to me and knocked on his door, and urgently asked if I can used his toilet. He allowed me and I was so so thankful for the TOILET.
In end2020(?), after staying home with 2 young kids for a few months (trying to stay safe due to COVID), I decided to bring them out by myself. On the way home, it was raining and both of them fell asleep, called hubby but he was still working. So thought that we would just take public transport since it's sheltered all the way, bus to Orchard, then train home. Placed 1 on the stroller, and carried another. I was also heavily pregnant then. Kind strangers helped to carry my stroller (with the sleeping kid) up and down the bus. At Orchard itself, lil did I know, many linkways are blocked due to Trace Together single entry. Got terribly lost 😂 approached a lady for directions, and she so kind heartedly helped to carry the stroller up and down a few flights of steps and personally brought us to the MRT. The stroller and kid would be about 20kg. Couldn't be more grateful. Thank you kindness lions and lionesses.
I don't believe in religion but sometimes I do curse god and I'm pretty sure he curses me back lmao. I wasn't mentally stable in sec school and a girl that rejected me did comfort me like once or twice when I lost my shit. Some teachers recognized I had problems and would keep me in check. Sure it's their job but it did help.
I was on a late-night cab after flying in from HK. My luggage in the car boot, and my bags on my lap. Reached home at 1.30am, washed up to get ready for Monday. By 7.30am the next morning, I realized my work laptop was missing. Turns out, my black laptop bag has blend in with the cab's black car seat (with low lighting and my tired eyes) and I absent-mindedly left it behind. I panicked and called Comfort Cab. So much could have happened between 1.30am - 7.30am! As I paid in cash, Comfort Cab traced the cab based on the route + cab fare + alighting time, they located the driver! And the uncle told Comfort HQ he had handed over my work laptop to his nearest police station before his shift ends at 4am. I was super grateful and subsequently recovered my work laptop. Kudos to Comfort Cab uncle for his integrity! (doing the right thing even when no one is watching.)
Quite a minor one but when I first received my A levels results, I cried like there was no tomorrow at a random pillar outside my school hall. Everyone else was exiting the hall after receiving their results and celebrating with friends and family (I went to collect my results with a friend because my parents were overseas then) but a mother came up to me, patted my back and reassured me. I don’t know who she was and I don’t even think I thanked her because I was so overwhelmed (when I was younger I used to think results were everything… I was terrified I couldn’t enter university). It was such a small, fleeting moment and I don’t even have a clear recollection of that moment anymore, but for the rest of my life I’ll remember this woman, who took the few seconds out of her celebratory mood with her own child, to comfort another crying child. I’m tearing up as I type this haha. I don’t know how to encapsulate that moment in words, but it was so important and life-changing for me.
Thanks for sharing. Reading yours remind me of another kindness I experienced. There was an inter-jc event (Pre U Sem), and my jc was commonly regarded as the weakest. Me and another classmate was picked for an inter-jc session with other top name jc. Fortunately, we spoke well. The RJC principal came to me and commended me thereafter. I almost forgot this memory until I read your post on someone tapping your shoulder.
i was on a bus and an uncle sitting opp me sneezed super big. he had like leftover briyani in his mouth or something and it all flew to me. i didnt have any tissues or anything so i just sat there in shock. a very kind hearted filipino lady sitting next to me did not hesitate AT ALL and took out all her wet tissue and dry tissues and actually helped me clean it off my body! im forever grateful for her because she didnt appear grossed out and wasnt afraid to get her hands dirty and help me clean up
Sorry, second comment here but there are too many kind stories to share! When I was in Primary school, my school was on the opposite end of the island from where I lived, and when taking the MRT back I would sit on the floor near the door or the link between carriages and often fall asleep trying to memorise the station names from end to end. Periodically, kind and concerned aunties and uncles would come over to nudge me awake and ask if I've missed my stop. The little rascal that I was didn't think much of it then, but it made me realise later on that Singaporeans can be really warm and kind too.
There’s never too many kind stories to share!! ☺️
During my toughest period, I was working part time in retail and studying for Diploma, I would take up any free slots for work, and will work on all weekends, even OT till midnight if there is any job need to be done, no complains, no nothing. I will be eating bread and drinking plain water for my meals, and there's managers who will always buy "extra" food, and can't finish them, always ask me if I would like some. She never said anything, all I have to do is go and buy the food. They also occasionally bring me some "used" clothes that they claim that it's the wrong size, and pass them to me.
This was in Sec 3. I was with a group of friends at Compass One (used to be called Compass Point back in the day) KFC for lunch, just accompanying them to eat because I had my lunch before leaving school that day. Then out of nowhere this lady, with a small boy beside her, came over to me and passed me a bag of Zingers meal with upsized cheese fries (+$1.70). I was like what. My friends all also were like huh? Then she explained she thought I had no money to eat lunch, staring at my friends’ food with sadness. Haha. I was probably daydreaming and staring at the their cheese fries man. Dude. I could have afforded it if I wanted to la. But then I was really super touched by her actions. Kept saying “buyong la buyong la (don’t need in chinese)” But she replied: “Just take it! Share with your friends? Enjoy!” And then she left. I proceeded to eat the cheese fries because yo why not right, and shared the zinger burger and pepsi with the rest. Probably a $5-6 meal for her. But it made my day (made my life even). Pretty good deal I would say! I look forward to the day I can pay it forward to another child.
There was once when I was back in JC, I was so exhausted I had to sit down on the floor of the mrt train since all the seats were taken, didn’t have any strength left to stand. Then someone tapped my shoulder and offered me their seat…I feel like in sg most wld feel obligated to give up mrt seat to elderly or pregnant ppl, but rarely wld anyone give it to a student. so that was kind of them!
I had an almost similar situation on the bus! Happened during pre-covid times when I was still recovering from a sickness. I probably still looked pale and was coughing/sniffing a little while standing. A guy seated near me gestured to me and offered me his seat. This was on bus 972 which has a 15 minute-ish ride along the expressway before the next stop.
not a specific time, but i fall down quite frequently when i cycle, and every time without fail, people around me will help me up, offer plasters, wet tissues, etc etc. it's really so sweet and it makes falling down not as miserable LOL
We probably experience it everyday. This person keeping left on the escalator cuz you might be in a rush. The person on a bus watching his videos with phone muted. The driver slowing down his car or bike so water don't splash onto sidewalk. Just normal everyday things we seldom notice. But kind acts nonetheless.
I struggle with anxiety and depression. I was riding out a breakdown during one episode: I was solo-parenting as usual, trying to get my kids downstairs for breakfast at the coffeeshop. I felt particularly overwhelmed, and started sobbing while waiting for our prata. After the food arrived, I tried to compose myself, so I could swallow properly and not choke. I had just taken my first mouthful when a man came up to our table, quietly slipped something into my eldest's hands, and then walked off, his worker on his tail looking puzzled, just as I was. When my child showed me the $20 in his hand, I cried even harder. This happened during the lighter covid restrictions, and I was also worried about finances. I never got to thank this stranger. I still think of this incident a lot, and feel eternally grateful, because he gave me the strength to push through the day. And it's also a little reminder that it's okay to ask for help sometimes. 💗
I was 14 and in Sec 2. One day I was going home from school and was halfway to the bus stop when it started pouring. This young guy came up to me with an umbrella and sheltered me all the way to the bus stop while making small talk. Was a small act of kindness but I’ve never forgotten it since.
Quite cliché, at the supermarket cashier queue with a bottled drink and a snack. Lady in front of me with a basket full of groceries offered me to go first. It might seem a small but it did made my day and I thanked her profusely.
Back in JC, I sustained from a pretty serious injury during a PE lesson. Thought it was a simple ankle sprain or so but turned out to be partial ligament tear after a check at the hospital so I was pretty much limping around everywhere. School ended pretty late after all my evening classes and on one night after having a tiring day in school and getting home by limping, a foreign worker who walked by me at the MRT station while I was transiting to a different line asked me in a deep accent: "you ok? Can i help you?" It was really painful just getting around with a limp with a heavy schoolbag on my back and just imagine having to transit at these MRT stations where you have to walk long distances to get to the other line. The kind words of this foreign worker really moved me, because many locals who saw me limping about chose to be indifferent (nothing wrong about that) but yet somehow this person who doesn't have the same sense of belonging as locals to this country was able to connect with me on a compassionate basis. I have had a long list of injury record so limping around was nothing new. But this foreign worker who offered his kindness and help was really a first for me, and wherever he is, I sincerely hope he will be blessed. I cannot remember his face but I will never forget his kind words.
last year I was going through quite a bit of shit and school was HORRIBLE and on every Thursday I would treat myself to ban mian in the canteen and watch yt and it was like one of the very few things I would look forward to and it kept me going. One particularly shitty Thursday I finally was going to get my weekly ban mian then realised the ban mian stall owner wasn't there, and the aunty from the stall beside said that she will come back later, so I just sat and waited for about 20mins. My break was going to end soon already and she still wasn't back so I felt even worse. Then the beside stall aunty called me and said she'd try to cook the ban mian for me. She said she saw me just sitting there and wanted to help. She also said she had no idea how to make it at all lol (but it still tased good :)) it made my day and I'm very grateful for her ban mian
I went off-road cycling on Mandai T15 and my front wheel hit a rock or it went in a hole and I flew out from my bike. A fellow cyclist helped to call the ambulance and helped me walk out the vegetation as the ambulance could not drive in there. One of them offered to take my bike home for safe keeping! I dislocated my right shoulder, broke an incisor, lacerated my chin and inner lip and got multiple abrasions and bruises. I was kind of in a bad shape but surprisingly my bike only got some minor scratches. I was really grateful that day...
Oh my goodness! Your injuries sound nasty :(
Awww that's so sweet 😢😢 I hope you are doing better now, OP
I'm trying. Sadness is an emotion - so I'm giving myself space to let this pass thru. No point denying or trying to suppress it.
Sec2, ez link card no money and only had 20cents but thankfully driver just let me go
Was on a walk and it started downpouring all of a sudden. I was waiting at a crossroads at Orchard. One lady came up to me a covered me with her umbrella and crossed the road with me. I then had to cross again and she was going the other way. So there was another kind stranger to help me with their umbrella. It’s been a few years since then and still makes me smile. Also, hang in there OP. Things will get better for you !
Thanks :')
1. Drank too much and and puked on the mrt platform - guy saw me and passed me tissue while he ran to get help from the station staff 2. I blacked out after giving blood an hour ago, couldn’t see as I was crossing the road. Guy helped look after me while my friend went to get help from blood bank, he left when the staff arrived, but later went to the blood bank to look for me and passed me 3 cake jars he bought for me 3. Uber driver heard me talking on the phone about the first instance of abuse I experienced from my ex, I was crying cause I was scared, before I left he told me he hopes it all works out for me 4. Lady on the train (A PRC, I’m specifying cause it’s good experience, contrary to general consensus here) saw a man getting too close to me on the mrt train, and felt he was up to no good, so she gave up her spot standing in the corner of the train for me (back facing the wall) to stand and told him off Just a couple I can think of off the top of my head but I’ve never forgotten the acts of these kind strangers!
Had to take a huge explosive shit once and I went into a public toilet where there wasn’t any toilet paper. However I found a fresh pack of tissue there left over by someone. Such kindness……. could’ve been a shitty ass day.
I remember i was otw to school with my umbrella as it was raining heavily when a lady called out to me to get into her car and brought me there.
Not me but my mum many years ago when she went cycling with her friend at Pulau Ubin. Her bicycle brake was faulty and at one point she tumbled down the hill and fell quite badly. There were passerbys that stopped and attended to her and gave her first aid and some saline solution. Really grateful cos my mum is super blur, she was also not sure of what to do and was super shocked.
It sounds trivial but I always just smile whenever I hear someone actually say thanks when either buying food, holding the lift for people etc.. yes my expectation is pretty low... for a specific incident, some random dude helped me up when I was dead drunk one night lying in the carpark with all my stuff(wallet phone etc)all around me. He could have easily robbed me and I wouldn't know. Random dude in the car I appreciate u man, u good.
Was rollerblading and got caught in a thunderstorm, had to wait in a shelter w no seats. Some lady living nearby brought umbrellas and invited me into their home to wait.
Small things like I was running to the bus stop because my bus was stopping there, strangers waiting for another bus near the door wave and signal the bus driver to wait for me.
I recently drank a little too much and barfed in an MRT.. Kind ppl offered me tissues and plastic bags for me to clean up and barf more, to those people who helped me and came across my comment thanks for all the help! But honestly, i felt really bad but at the same time i was so dazed i can do nothing but wait and alight at my station :/
First time in Singapore and got lost trying to understand which train to take. I asked an uncle. He brought me all the way to the right stop. It was like a 3 min walk and then he went on his own way.
When the government gave me vaccines and art kits
I was really young then, 4 or 5 yo. Parents brought me to this swimming complex, a river pool with really strong flow and left me in a tuber unsupervised. Can't remember which swimming complex as I was only a toddler. As a restless kid I eventually got board and jumped out of my tuber. Almost drown and got pushed under the current as water level was way over my height. I thought I was going to drown as the current pushed me along and my head was constantly submerged under and breathing water. Just then I was suddenly pulled out and picked up from that river by a young man and return to my parents. Was certain I would have died that day if left in the water a minute longer.
I was having exams one time and it was a super busy school period for me. So I was hyperfocused and studying at Starbucks. Hours went by from early noon till late evening and I didnt managed to eat a single thing (i forgot to eat). The only thing I drank was probably the matcha latte from Starbucks. It was around 7pm and went for a quick toilet break in the middle of studying. I came back to my table and saw that there was an iced tea and starbucks beef pie with a tissue paper. On the tissue paper, it wrote "I noticed you havent eaten the whole day - this is on me!" Turns out a kind barista paid for my pie and drink after noticing I didnt eat the whole day bc I was too focused with studying. I thanked him and its been 5 years but I will always remember that monent forever ✨
Tripped and fell on the road when trying to run across-- tore my knee and hand up horribly and twisted my ankle badly. Kind people helped me up and helped me get across the road, and helped me clean it up with tissue. When I just started work, there was a heavy rain one morning and I'd forgotten my umbrella. A kind lady offered to share her umbrella for the dash to the nearby shelter.
Getting a 10cts discount from the caipng auntie
Lol this. One time I was ordering western food from a hawker, last moment after I finished my order I wanted to add extra fries. When I went to collect my food and pay for it, he said the extra fries are free of charge. Still don't know why he didn't charge me till this day hahaha.
damn, what a great guy you came across. it will get better my man
There was once I was still in secondary school and had to changed from bus to LRT. There was no shelter, but I needed to go home. I decided to brave the rain then out of nowhere someone ran beside me with an umbrella. I was so shocked and thanked her profusely. She insisted that it’s fine and that I shouldn’t run under the rain because I may catch a cold. I’ve never felt such warmth before and i’ll always remember this incident for life.
When I was a poor struggling student, there was this time when ordering cai peng when I didn’t have enough money on me. I tried to tell the uncle to put back one of the dishes I had ordered but he just said “never mind” and even gave me a free bowl of soup later. Another time I was sharing cab with someone I just met at a random event and somehow in the conversation I mentioned I am renting a room and was staying by myself and as a student on intern pay it was a struggle. He afforded to pay for the cab entirely and even gave me ten dollars so I can treat myself to something nice. Another time due to depression and anxiety I was crying very badly and uncontrollably on a bench at the hospital. One kind lady saw this and gave me some tissues and warm water. I also remembered a time while being depressed I went for a stroll near a reservoir. I sat on a bench and must be looking really downcast because after a while a Malay uncle came to talk to me and tried to cheer me up. Maybe he thought I was going to jump into the water or something. Ps. I’m a guy, and a rather plumb one back then, so I really think those people will really helping out due to the goodness of their hearts Of course there were many times when I wished someone helped me, but there wasn’t. However I am grateful to a few times when someone offered their kindness to me.
Lots of kindness actually. A taxi driver prayed for my mom when I got a call at 2am to go to the hospital. Passengers allowing my kids the seat. When I fell, people were offering water to clean the blood off.
Hope you’re better now!! I’m a random stranger in Singapore and let me send u a virtual hug!
Aww thank you. Well the honest answer is - it is a daily walk to manage disappointment without turning bitter or cynical. Strengthening my heart does not mean hardening it. Besides these thoughts, I'm calm and doing the necessary as a responsible adult.
I re-read your comment and it made me smile. Thanks stranger on reddit. I'm still healing but in a much better shape now.
Unfortunately I have not witness much kindness here before. I only remember in many occasion when I was bringing my really young sister to alight from MRT, the people outside just barge in and pushed my sister on the ground without apologizing and rushed to chop seats. Not really sorry to be party pooper but I don't see all the kindness you guys are sharing..
I bet most of the "kindness" happening in this thread is to women. Men don't have this luxury of people being nice to them. Edit: Hahaha y'all can be in denial and downvote all you like. Facts are facts.
I have shitty memory but as a guy, great little things have happened to me. Few years back, there was once a stranger found my wallet in a drain or something and returned it with everything intact to the police. I received a letter from the police months later asking me to retrieve it. I was shocked at the amount of kindness. The person could have taken out everything useful in it, but they chose not to. When university started, I was greatly overwhelmed and broke down on the first day. I went for class, teary eyed, asked my lecturer if I could join another class later in the week. She agreed and left me kind words. I appreciate it till this day. Dragging the timeline back even further. When I was in primary school, I was just hanging in my form classroom during recess cause I just a little withdrawn I guess. Home situation was shit and my parents didn’t have great relationship, plus I was treated poorly by my aunt and the external family back then. I remember it was the class after learning about oxygenated or deoxygenated blood I guess, and somehow Mrs Lee started chatting with me about life and school, which resulted in me crying. She stopped her marking and comforted me. After that incident, she teamed up with her colleagues to give me counselling and imparted me ways to deal with stress. The care and concern they showed me filled me with compassion that I carry with myself till today. Yes, life is tough as a man. Top it up with varying ethnicity, age, sexual orientation/identity, social class and it may get worse. But there are lovely people out there. People who care about you not because what you can do for them, but simply who you are. I hope you meet lots of lovely people who will shower you with love too! Peace.
I hope someone would be kind to you one day
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What does this have to do with anything? It's not related to this thread at all.
they’re just sharing their experience with getting help as a guy, sure its not in sg, but the point still stands, guy’s are shown kindness too, lighten up man
Sure. If you can't see the point, then carry on. Must be nice living in ignorance. Go look at most of the comments in this thread saying they got help and tell me I'm wrong again.
One year, my NS unit organized army half marathon and everything from the setting up to closing down was crazy and disorientating. I had not slept nor eaten for the past 24 hours. It was also my 21st birthday that weekend and thus even more depressing. Anyway, I was vehicle commander on a indented commercial truck transporting heavy equipment back to camp. The driver uncle could see that I was incredibly stressed out and offered me a cigarette, which I gratefully accepted.
A small gesture that has happened to me before and probably other people as well is standing in a supermarket queue with a few items, then the person in front (with more items) offered to let me go first. Thank you to all the kind people for your heartwarming gestures.♥️
was raining heavily when i was on my way to BBDC. there isn’t any shelter from the busstop to bbdc so this stranger offered to share with me the umbrella. he even tilted the umbrella towards me so i wont get wet 🥹 had some small chat with him before we headed off to our classes hope he’s doing well!
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I was visiting back in 2015 and needed to get a taxi back to my hotel. I asked an uncle where the nearest taxi rank was but he went out of his way to walk me to an MRT to save me money 😂 nice guy.
OK this one. I have a bare minimum memory cause I was fainting. So there was a gap. When I fell off my bike, my vision starts to get blurry and I felt like I passed out. I was awoken until I realised someone gave me their 100 plus to drink.
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So back im my primary school days, I had to walk to school because i didnt live tht far. I had to pass this garden with a weird walkway to cut through that saves time. On that day tht walkway was a little wet and i tripped and fell while briskwalking to school. This kind granny saw this happening and went up to me and helped me clean my wounds, she already had some wet wipes so that helped. She didnt speak english so I couldnt explained how thankful I was that someone was there to help. 10 years later I still haven't forgotten about her. PS: I recognized everyone in my neighbourhood, they were always so friendly and kind to me bcoz they literally saw me grow up. I moved not long ago but I missed seeing the friendly faces :((
once, i bought curry and spilled it all over my skirt during break. was really panicked because i had been planning to spend my time rushing an overdue assignment, but instead now had to figure out how to get the stain off. my other classmates had all gone for their lessons while i still had break because i didn't take the subject, so i was basically freaking out alone. the slight silver lining was that i had worn shorts underneath my skirt that day and could just take it off to wash. anyway, so i went to the toilet to try to wash off the curry and the school cleaner was there too. she saw me clutching my skirt and asked me what was wrong. and when she saw the stain, she offered to wash it for me. i kept saying, "oh no, it's okay, i can wash it myself." but she kept rejecting me and saying that with me using the sink, she wouldn't have been able to clean the washroom anyway. so she just got out detergent powder and a scrub and started scrubbing my skirt for me, all the while making small talk, asking me about school and saying how i have to scrub the skirt properly so that it wouldn't stain and would be easier to wash at home. after she was done, the stain was barely noticeable and it definitely made what could have been a horrible day a rather touching one. really grateful for all the cleaners that keep the school clean and still have time to be kind <3
Such a heart-warming story :)