Everyday Hero Friday: Small Acts Can Mean So Much

Welcome Back!

Today’s little blurb into the world of the Every Day Hero is especially touching, because as you read it you realize how much someone can do for someone by doing something that a lot of us would never think to do, but that didn’t cost them much at all.

In today’s world we are too busy, we are too stressed, and beyond that we are too afraid of our fellow men and women.  How many people out there would open their house to a homeless person to use the phone, hell anyone to use the phone, much less a shower, the couch, some food.  We are good people as a whole, but we need to be more like this person below.

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I used to work at a fast food restaurant in Houston, TX. There is a high homeless population in Houston, to the point that people just see them as background. I worked early mornings, and I used to buy a breakfast sandwich or coffee for whoever was around that day. I didn’t have much to spend, but I did what I could. I would let some of the guys come to my house to take a shower, do laundry, eat dinner, and just spend an evening being ‘normal’. We would watch some TV, play games, listen to music, whatever. I always hated when they had to leave, that I couldn’t do more to help. Later, one of the guys told me that I was why he was still alive. I never realized how much impact so little could have.

Everyday Heroes

Welcome home.

Sit back, relax, pull up a chair.  Let me tell you a story. This story is about a man named Chris and a girl named Friday.  I was surfing through the lands of Facebook when my friend Friday called upon me to look at this single solitary idea.

This idea was to tell stories where people had helped you no matter how small, no matter how infinitesimal they felt the contribution was, that people had helped you and it had changed your life.  This could be as small as buying you a cup of coffee when you were cold, or giving you a dime when you were down.

Some stories will be immense, a couch when you were homeless can mean the difference between staying on the street in the snow and finding a job to keep you going.   Also it was a place to tell stories of where you have helped someone, and again it didn’t seem like much at the time, but can mean the world to someone else.  That free burger you bought in line at McDonald’s that made you feel a little warm inside, or that day you bought the guy in front of you in line his last five bucks in groceries instead of letting him have them put it back.

The point of this page is to feel good, to make you feel good, to make the people you help feel good by helping.  It’s a random act of kindness sort of day.

The page will be updated bi-weekly on Wednesday and Sunday.  If you have a story, feel free to comment, or email herofriday0001@gmail.com

Everyday Hero: Racheal’s Story.

Sometimes through no fault of your own, you end up somewhere you never meant to be.  It is in these times that the kindness of strangers may just be your salvation.  Our first story is not much more than a blurb of information, but it shows just how great people can be.  And today with the faith in humanity falling to the wayside so often, we need more stories like this.  That’s why we’re here.

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A couple of years ago, I decided to go to Fargo, ND. Terrible idea, it’s freaking cold up there lol. In November, there was a sudden change, and I found myself stranded up there. No money, food, place to stay anything. The manager of the apartment complex we were living in let me stay on a couch in the lobby for a week and gave me food. One of the neighbors gave me coffee and cigarettes, and took me out on my birthday. Someone else, put a $20 in my backpack one night while I was sleeping. I put an ad on Craigslist asking for help. A stranger anonymously bought me a ticket home, and left $10 at the bus station for me to pick up. That ticket was $200. And it meant the world to me. That person can never truly know how much that ticket meant to me to be able to get back home.