Kindness isn't dead: Five stories that prove it
Now or Never

Kindness isn't dead: Five stories that prove it

B1IntermediateSeptember 17, 202654 min
  • Society

We’re more divided than ever and sometimes, it feels like meanness is winning. So this week, Now or Never is going all in on kindness, with five totally unexpected stories on the kindness of strangers that will hopefully nudge you to be a little kinder, too. Two weeks ago, Ben Shannon got a call at work that every parent fears: his 12-year-old daughter, Sumire, was alone, at one of Toronto's busiest intersections, experiencing a sudden medical emergency. He raced to the scene and found a stranger cradling his daughter amidst the chaos. In th...

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Trevor, what would you say your kindness meter is at these days? And I don't mean you being kind to others, but just like your sense of how kind the world is, your community is. I think it depends on where I am.

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Like if I am on the internet, it is real low. If I am walking through my neighborhood, it is real high. I think I'm searching for it though. I think I'm actually looking for it more often now.

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I am in that same place. There's so much conversation about how much more divided we are as people and unable to find common ground, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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