What's the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

[LadyW]

This is a question I have asked myself for a long time now and I still cannot seem to reach a conclusion on the matter. It begs the question, what factors does the "nicest thing" embody? Does it involve somebody making a sacrifice for another? Or perhaps, remaining loyal to another during difficult times?
I'll have a little while to ponder...
For now, what is the nicest thing anyone has ever done/said for/to you?

[dramasnot6]

This is such a lovely thread idea LadyW.

I have met so many wonderful friends here on Litnet who have said the nicest things to me about my poetry and my thoughtd and have helped me through rough times.

The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me(that I can think of now):
When my second proposal to my school admin for recycling bins was harshly turned down in a rather cruel, unjustified email, my fellow environmentalist teacher Mr.Savage fought on my behalf at the staff meeting, helping me get teachers who I didn't know too well to back me up. He also wrote a beautiful email explaining to the main adminastrative culprit how hard I had worked in my campaign, it was the first time anyone had acknowledged my efforts at that school(which, even when most impactful and successful, usually went ignored and neglected).
It made me feel so wonderful about myself, and gave me the boost of self esteem I needed to win that recycling bin battle.

[LadyW]

This is such a lovely thread idea LadyW.
Thank you :thumbs_up



The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me(that I can think of now):
When my second proposal to my school admin for recycling bins was harshly turned down in a rather cruel, unjustified email, my fellow environmentalist teacher Mr.Savage fought on my behalf at the staff meeting, helping me get teachers who I didn't know too well to back me up. He also wrote a beautiful email explaining to the main adminastrative culprit how hard I had worked in my campaign, it was the first time anyone had acknowledged my efforts at that school(which, even when most impactful and successful, usually went ignored and neglected).
It made me feel so wonderful about myself, and gave me the boost of self esteem I needed to win that recycling bin battle.
Awwh, thats so very sweet :)
I am very happy you did!

[Domer121]

The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me???
Loved me unconditionally..
Even when I am a pain..
Beyond that... to my "adoptive family" who gave me a home when I needed one. They have done more for me than anyone in my entire life.

[Anza]

Well, recently... it wasn't a big deal, but it did mean a lot.
At the beginning of the school year, I had to make up an algebra test during lunch. I ended up finishing, and eating my lunch on one of the benches outside. All of a sudden, this kid named Miguel came up and sat beside me. He asked why I was sitting alone. I had never properly met him-- we had english and PE together, but he still didn't even know me. But that didn't matter to him. He thought that there might have been something wrong, and so he had lunch with me to make sure I wouldn't be lonely. I was really taken aback. Now, we're good friends. He is incredibly intelligent, and we enjoy running our teachers around in circles, usually tag-teaming it. I don't know why this sticks out in my mind so much, especially when it happened a few months ago... maybe it was the unselfish and spontaneous nature of the gesture... I don't know...

[Anza]

Can I post what I'm going to do for somebody else??

Our school does carnation deliveries for two dollars. There is an independent studies student in my latin class, who is in 11th grade, while the rest of us are in eighth and ninth. Brian is really sweet, and a joy to be around, but he's the kind of person who never has a valentine on V-day. He's also never had a girlfriend.
So I'm gonna get him a carnation and have them send it to him from second period, since we've adopted him as our ninja mascot of second period. Just to let him know that someone is thinking about him.

[dramasnot6]

That is so nice of you Anza! :)

[jon1jt]

This is a question I have asked myself for a long time now and I still cannot seem to reach a conclusion on the matter. It begs the question, what factors does the "nicest thing" embody? Does it involve somebody making a sacrifice for another? Or perhaps, remaining loyal to another during difficult times?
I'll have a little while to ponder...
For now, what is the nicest thing anyone has ever done/said for/to you?


Not trying to change me.

[Bakiryu]

The nicest thing anyone has done for me was to save my life.

when i was younger I was in an accident, a stone slab fell on me and I was too small to lift it, it was crushing me to death when my cousins Andy and Juan removed it from me. I love them. Without them I'd probably have suffocated.
other things people have done for me was letting me and my mother stay with them after somebody almost....harmed us.

People are so kind. ♥♥♥

[1n50mn14]

When I was having a really rough time in the place I was, my best friend's mom payed for my bus ticket to go and stay with them.

When I had to leave my boyfriend for the summer, he left me his special necklace- a Thor's hammer he hadn't taken off even to shower for three and a half years. <3

[AtomicCafe1]

Left me alone!

Har, har.

[Lote-Tree]

She crowned me "The Smut King" ;-) :D

[Granny5]

Be there for me anything I needed them.
Love me unconditionally
Be my true friend
Accept my faults
Listen

[mercy_mankind]

when someone ( don't know me) guided me to my aim in life .

[muhsin]

I have lots, I can say. Maybe when I get back, I'll come up with a list of that.

[Pensive]

Probably my little cousin. Well, she is not too little, just four years younger than me but still, she appears to be little to me as she is the youngest of us all (a close group of cousins/friends). :) Every time I doubted the power of love, the presence of 'good' in the world, she was always there. I thought of her playful and caring nature, and felt better. I mean how could the world be so bad when there are such sort of people dwelling in it. :)

Obviously my mother, other family members and friends too have done countless wonderful things for me. Just sharing a troubled day means a lot to me. Just sharing with someone my happiness and gloom I would include in people's niceness that they bore/listened to me. :)

[B-Mental]

hmm, the nicest, or the best? I think the coolest was when i was in college. I taught Earth Sciences to people educators...for 3 semesters I was a teachers assistant... Thats 300 women and 7 men that I taught for 18 months! But I always had a date, if I wanted one...LOL... I was a Senior in College, and 24 years old.

[mir]

I don't know about overall, but the nicest here have been times when my family and friends have surprised me. Once, on Thanksgiving, I was feeling rather homesick, since all my family back in the US was celebrating together, and here I was just sitting at home doing homework all night, because of course it's an American holiday. My sister went to the gym, and when she came back she brought me a package of Kinder chocolate eggs as a "Thanksgiving gift" . . . I still don't know where she got them. And at my birthday, I thought nobody would remember because I still couldn't talk much didn't really have any friends, and was having problems with my family; but everybody wished my happy birthday, and my mom even made me a cake.

It's the smallest things that make the difference, I think - just knowing that there's somebody out there that cares about you.

[Pensive]

I don't know about overall, but the nicest here have been times when my family and friends have surprised me. Once, on Thanksgiving, I was feeling rather homesick, since all my family back in the US was celebrating together, and here I was just sitting at home doing homework all night, because of course it's an American holiday. My sister went to the gym, and when she came back she brought me a package of Kinder chocolate eggs as a "Thanksgiving gift" . . . I still don't know where she got them. And at my birthday, I thought nobody would remember because I still couldn't talk much didn't really have any friends, and was having problems with my family; but everybody wished my happy birthday, and my mom even made me a cake.

It's the smallest things that make the difference, I think - just knowing that there's somebody out there that cares about you.

Yes, it really makes a lot of difference. On my birthday, the last persons I had expected to wish me a happy birthday did so; one of them my brother even while living so far away remembered and called me when friends living nearby forgot it was even my birthday. But my brother's call and the other wish made my day. :)

[dramasnot6]

Be there for me anything I needed them.
Love me unconditionally
Be my true friend
Accept my faults
Listen

Oh...and that too XD

Beautiful reply Granny...