12 Real-Life Stories That Prove That True Good Will Triumph Over Any Adversity

Life is full of difficult and unpleasant moments, but it is important to remember that there is more good in it. Look around you and you will realise that there are many kind people in the world who are ready to help their loved ones or even strangers for nothing, without asking for anything in return.

• I was fifteen. I was alone during my first shift at my first job (small photo studio) a woman came in and asked for passport photos in black and white. I explained to her that we no longer did bw passport photos and only color, which were up to specs with government regulations. After I took them, and she came back, she proceeded to yell at me for them not being in black and white, even though she had agreed to color before I took them.
  This is in front of a line of customers behind her who’d witnessed the whole thing. Because it was still a perfectly good product and I had just started the job, I wasn’t allowed to just refund her and be done with it. After fifteen minutes of her refusing to stop yelling at me, I started to cry.
  An older gentleman in the line walked up to her, handed her a refund from his own pocket, and told her to get out and stop mocking a fifteen-year-old for doing her job. About fifteen minutes after he left the store, he came back with ice cream for me just to cheer me up. That guy was the best customer ever. © Unknown author / Reddit

• After the second date, my husband took me to meet his mom. I was afraid of the idea, but I took the risk. My future mother-in-law was not particularly happy to meet me. She glanced at me, snorted, giggled, and kept to herself. But her eyes lit up when I confessed: “I just love growing raspberries. I have a whole vegetable garden at home.” After that, my husband's mom and I spent half an hour discussing the vegetable garden, looking at her flowers, and discussing catching moles. That's how I got a new best friend, my mother-in-law. A vegetable garden brings you closer together. © Palata 6 / VK

• I paid for my friend’s eye surgery. They have been living 17 years with an almost completely blind eye. But the real hero is the surgeon who decided to do the surgery free of charge and got the anesthetist onboard for free too. The cost got cut down to the surgery room, the nurses and the implements. © steve_colombia / Reddit

• A man in a full business suit with a briefcase handed me an umbrella during a torrential rainstorm and wouldn’t take no for an answer. I still had to walk through Times Square to get to the train, and I’m sure he got soaked going wherever he was headed.
  A couple of weeks later, I gave the umbrella to a lost girl in my neighborhood when it started to rain, and she didn’t have one. It felt like the universe wanted it to happen. I’ll never forget that man, though. © im_not_bovvered / Reddit

• On the street, I noticed that an elderly man was feeling ill. I gave him some water, took him home and gave him some money. It turned out that he was 86 years old and his relatives hadn't needed him for a long time. Saying goodbye, he said to me, ‘I have nothing to thank you with, I only have this.’ And then he pulled out a coin and said: "I've had it in my pocket for years. May it be good luck to you." It's from 1780. It turned out to be real and expensive. And for me it's priceless. © Podslushano / VK

• In 2008, I was in college and figuring out what to do for the next two or three days, until I was next paid, for food with approximately $6 in my bank account. Walking home from an evening class, I found $20 on the sidewalk. I couldn't believe my luck. I could get ground beef, eggs, milk, whatever — I knew I'd be set for two days.
  Well, not a week later, I lost my cellphone and was in a panic. I needed it and couldn't afford to replace it anytime soon. Later that day, my mom, who lived four hours away, called my brother's cellphone and told him that someone had called her saying they had found my cellphone and would like to return it.
  I met this homeless man who said he had found my cellphone in some grass. He had opened it and called "Mom" and spoke to my mom about returning it. I thanked him and gave him $20 for his help — it wasn't my $20 to begin with, anyway. © giugno / Reddit

• I win huge amounts of plush toys from crane games and donate them to local charities like free shops and toy drives. I’m talking large industrial trash bags full of them. I just like winning them and don’t need 20 octopuses. © cruznick06 / Reddit

• About 20 years ago, I decided to go to the cinema with my friends and on the way my wallet was stolen. After the cinema, I forgot all about it, got on the bus, and then I remembered that I didn't have any money. I explained my situation to the driver as best I could, and he stopped the bus and dropped me off in front of a bridge. I passed the bridge and a girl came towards me. She said that she had heard that I had been robbed and got off at the next stop to give me money for my fare. © Parna Roy / Quora

• My sister and I grew up in a poor family. People made fun of us at school because of our old and cheap clothes. Mum didn't have money to buy us new clothes. In the literature class, the teacher said we would go to a competition. The classmates started laughing again, and the teacher stood up and said: "You're laughing for nothing. They read more than all of you put together. Now we are both married, have left the province, and live in two different metropolises, but we still remember and thank the teacher's words to this day. © Podslushano / Ideer

• At 14, I was so poor that I couldn’t afford lunch, and I used to pretend to forget it. A teacher started bringing me food every day, but then during that school year, she suddenly vanished and never came back.
  10 years later, I had become a lawyer. I saw her name booked for a visit. When she came in, I froze. She was the same woman I knew, with those same kind eyes. But I was shocked when she started to shake and tremble. She didn’t recognize me at first, but when I told her my name, she smiled.
  Her husband of 20 years had left her for a younger woman and taken all her savings in a planned scheme. She couldn’t afford a lawyer but had come asking for help—or at least reduced fees. I took her case and told her I didn’t want a penny.
  We won. She got all her money back—and even more in damages. She hugged me and said I’d saved her. I told her I was only repaying a debt—and that she could count on me, always.

• I was once harassed at a railway station by an unpleasant bloke. He pestered me, "Give me your number, give me your number." I was scared, he kept up with me, asking me which train I was going to take. Then a girl came up to us and said: "My God, Sarah, how many years, how many winters! I'm so happy to see you! Come say hi to Jake!". I had never met her before, but I was eternally grateful to this girl. After all, she had saved me from a potentially dangerous situation. © emmareddit / Reddit

• I was around 19 years old, in my first year of community college. My dad had lost his job, and my mom was supporting our entire family. We had been struggling for a while. I remember being in my night class one day, starving. I figured there’d be no dinner, so I told myself I’d go straight to bed when I got home and not think about being hungry.
  When I got home after class, there was a giant box of Costco pizza on the kitchen counter. Apparently, one of our neighbors had bought it for us because my dad had fixed part of her fence a few months back. I think it stuck with me because:
  A. I was so hungry, and
  B. The chances of her bringing food that night, of all nights, felt insane to me.
  It might sound stupid, but I’ll never forget it. © melimelsx / Reddit

After such stories, one wants to believe that good will win over all the bad and the world around will shine with bright colours.