A simple story of humanity

Americans helping Americans is the patriotic thing to do.

What a wonderful video/story! We all need to realize as j points out here, that we are all in the same boat together. And if we don't stand together, we will sink separately. When my husband and I go to our regular watering hole, we hear the stories from the wait staff (many of them young, single mothers) how they struggle to make ends meet and despite not having much ourselves, make sure to tip them a little extra which they pretty much live on. We know that we could be in their place any day.

It can be done. But we need to lose the Randian ideology of "hurray for me the hell with you." mentality.

a simpler story of humanity, is everything.

It sad that this has to be such a popular "feel-good" video...

It should be so common place as to not be notable...

Not complaining over you posting it, but we've regressed to the point helping someone out is a notable thing. Humanity left the building years ago in most places it seems. Going for so long telling ourselves of how bad we've got it, when most of us here don't have to go very far to see how much more worse it could be. Some of us here have in considerably worse, I'm sure of it.

I mean even when I was homeless I was relived every evening when the fast food chains closed and I new they'd be throwing out all those orders they screwed up at the end of the night.... Kept a positive attitude, helped out the "new to homelessness" crowd... I mean a person could starve or freeze to death if they didn't know the ropes or have a decent head on their shoulders...

I've seen allot of people have it pretty good in comparison go moping about life being hard....

Your life don't suck, live on discarded fast food, and in ditches and drainage pipes for a little while....

How very true.
We can't wait for the government to help.
There are SO many things you and I can do on a daily basis that costs as much as a lottery ticket.
Share a meal. Plant a tree.

I make it a habit to always give to the homeless or any person that appears to be down on their luck. It breaks my heart to see people hungry and in need of shelter. I have held up traffic to give to people standing on the side of intersections with signs. Many people characterize them as drunks/addicts or people who want to live on the streets. I don't believe that no one in their right mind wants to live on the street. I could care less, I don't want to take a chance of not helping a person that is really in need of help. I also raised my kids to be giving, and I was raised to be giving, regardless of our/my circumstances.

breath of fresh air j...

Wasn't it a little kid who called it, " Pay it forward " ?
Money is the cause of so much evil...it's best to keep only the bare minimum you need then get rid of what's left as fast as you can!

Wonderful video, jmarkred. Thank you for sharing this inspiring story with us.

Please know I enjoy the fact that you share so many sides of your self, including your "cynical" self, too.

Thank you JMark, you've put a whole lot into perspective for me today.
I have always believed in doing "simple acts of kindness" and until recently, have done them silently and anonymously. You have reminded me to "get up and start again." I'm now living in a very low-rent building because of a recent injury; I am damned lucky that I have a warm place with a roof. But this has happened for a reason.
All around me, I see castaway people, destitution - originally, most were unwanted babies - and they never had a chance in this life.
There are a zillion things I can do here, right under my nose - you've pointed the way with this message - I very much appreciate the "wake-up call."

I was approached by a man not too long ago who told me he was hungry and hadn't eaten for a few days and that he tried the pantry but it was empty. I walked with him to a pizza parlor about a block away and he got some pizza and a drink and I gave him enough to buy some other food there to last him for the day. He said he also had no place to stay so I directed him to a local church that I knew was a shelter. He started crying and thanked me. I just hope he got whatever else he needed. So you are so right. Even though we may be unemployed, which I am now too, I know I could have it a whole lot worse than so many do. We have to pay it forward.Thanks for your story.

terrific story, thanks for sharing perspective

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What are you, some kind of hippie? ;-)