This post is inspired by Shot@Life, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation dedicated to using vaccines as a cost-effective way to save children’s lives in developing countries. (Image courtesy United Nations Foundation.)
Hi team, I need help. Here’s why:
For every comment on this post, Shot@Life gets $20 to vaccinate a kid.
Twenty. Dollars.
Twenty dollars is what it costs to give one child four vaccines that help protect them against measles, pneumonia, diarrhea, and polio. During Shot@Life’s Blogust: Blog Relay for Good, 31 bloggers have been helping to secure $200,000 in sponsor donations. We need 10,000 comments, and we’re about 1,000 away from that goal right now.
Over the years, your comments have shaped my life. Whether you were celebrating Hank’s birth with me, or cheering my Life List, or comforting me when things took a difficult turn. I know you guys care about helping other people because of how much help you’ve already heaped on me.
So let’s do this.
Can you comment twice? Yes. Yes you can. And if you have a means of spreading the word, please Tweet, Pin, link on Facebook, or post a quick link on your own site.
Let us know the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you in comments. And thanks to you for being so nice to other people. I like you.
Yesterday Fadra Nally of All Things Fadra wrote about the comments you never see. Tomorrow, I’m passing the baton to my friend Stacey Ferguson of Justice Fergie — so you can help us reach our final goal by commenting on her site as well. We have until August 31. Thanks again.
Mighty Girl 
So many nice things to appreciate – one of the most unexpected, a high school boy who overheard my birthday was coming up and made me a fantastic birthday cake!
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People who had been evacuated from their own homes in the Australian floods last year came to sing in the choir at my father-in-law’s funeral. Some were wearing mud-spattered clothes.
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This comment not only provides $20 worth of child vaccinations, but also $20 worth of adult smooches at no extra charge. Charity never felt so good.
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The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me was to love me.
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The niciest thing anyone ever did for me was buy my kids x-mas when I couldn’t afford to.
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My husband’s agreeing to let me take two years off work to pursue my grad school dreams was the nicest thing he – and anyone – has ever done for me.
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Everyday I wake up is another day to marvel at God’s work.
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My teammates have always been there for me, through every up and down. They always greeted me with a hug before practice, cheered for and supported me through practice, and always included everyone in team activities.
Now that we’re all playing volleyball in college, we still keep
In touch to support each other and cheer for each other from miles away.
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My Mother cleaned my house while I was on vacation. Such a nice treat to come home to!
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When I was feeling a little down at turning 35 my boyfriend surprised with a stack of 35 cards each with a different reason to be happy =o)
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One February morning a good friend showed up at my front door with a bunch of fresh tulips. She’d seen them at the market and thought of me, thought she’d noticed I was kind of down lately, and got the flowers for me. I have never forgotten this act of genuine kindness. Every time I buy tulips, I think of her and the bright spot the tulips made in that February long ago.
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Being forgiven. That’s the nicest thing anyone has done for me. I mean, I try really, really hard to be nice and a good person, but let’s face it–I’m human and sometimes I can be a jerk. To be forgiven is one of the best forms of niceness because it makes certain not to perpetuate the unkindness.
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My friend sends me hand-me-down clothes for my son. Perhaps not the absolutely nicest thing ever done for me but a really, really nice thing. It’s not even about the clothes. It’s just so nice to know we’re thought of.
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It’s not the nicest thing ever done, but it’s recent and it meant something to me, so it came to me. I spent time with one of my best friends and her son (my godson) the other night, and once her husband came home, he sent us out for ice cream so we could have some adult conversation. She treated because she knows I’m a poor grad student. We spent almost two hours sitting in her minivan talking about things both important and inconsequential, and having a lovely time, and we both ended the night feeling a bit better about life.
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And if I can comment twice and it counts then BY GOLLY I will!
Go team, Go! You’re doing great! And we love you.
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I’d say it was when my husband described me as “buoyant”, and said that I help him and all who know me to be lighter. I love that beyond words.
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One of the nicest things I have experienced would be the time a counselor gave to me. She was assigned to me in high school to help with my less than stellar grades, but she really gave me much needed self esteem. She taught me that I was important – A simple, yet life changing lesson in a very difficult time. She started a new practice my first year of college and I was concerned about how I would pay her as a counselor. She told me she would work it out with the college which doesn’t make sense now, but it did in my eighteen year old brain. I later realized she was just seeing me on her own time. Your undivided attention, concern and time is one of the greatest gifts you can give someone and I will be forever grateful.
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Whenever a car stops at the crosswalk and waits for me to cross- it’s the little things.
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when i was attending university overseas, i got a call that my grandfather was dying. the only phone in our dorm was in the very public hallway.
as i sat there. alternating talking to my parents and sobbing, one of the girls on my floor came and sat by me and held my hand. a simple gesture, but it made a huge difference
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Forgiveness. That is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.
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I hope this will help ;somedays are hard.But someone is alway having a crazy one to.Just not feeling well.
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The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me was to understand me. In middle school I had a teacher who understood my perfectionist tendencies. She gave me a bit of slack when I was stuck rewriting a paper until it was just right. She made exceptions for me that gave me a chance to work through my issues.
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It is hard to find the nicest thing when I am surrounded by loving family members, friends, and acquaintances. I think my parents raising me, my teachers guiding me, and my friends supporting me must all tie. ❤
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A hug when I’m feeling down.
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My kids got shots and are mostly healthy. I want others to get theirs too. Thanks Maggie.
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My mum has supported and encouraged (and challenged) me in everything I’ve done. She’s been the nicest thing in my life.
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Health is everything. If one comment can keep a child healthy, how could you not?
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What a marvelous idea!
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one of the nicest things anyone’s ever done for me was when my husband threw me a beautiful surprise 30th birthday party with all of my favorite people out there.
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People do nice things for me all the time, and I try to do my best to notice. The nicest thing that anyone has ever done is afford me the freedom and security to be myself, just as I am. Too broad? Maybe, but it counted so much.
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You can comment twice! I will pass this link along and hope this post not only brings vaccines to children in need, but inspires people to be the nicest thing for someone else. It has for me. Thank you!
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The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me in the comments? I’d have to say it would be defending me from a troll so I don’t have to. That’s always a lovely thing. 😉
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Yay vaccines! My mom did the nicest thing for me, by raising me to be happy and loved and reading to me every night before bed.
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My parents were happy to take me and my sister everywhere they were going. They didn’t believe in ‘date nights’ or ‘me time’. I am so thankful they liked being with us 🙂
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Oooh, doggies, I am all over this. A single act does not come to mind, but my husband, daughter, and sister (who lives with us to help take care of the baby — nicest thing ever, eh?) every day are so nice and pleasant and wonderful to build a life with that I consider myself extraordinarily fortunate.
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Second comment to BUY MORE VACCINES! and to say that the nicest thing happened to me today was a coworker bringing me a yummy scone for no reason.
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The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me just happened on Saturday. My mom is going to pay for a test I really need. She offered because a similar test changed her life, in her mind. I am still bowled over at how kind & unexpected it was.
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The nicest thing someone has ever done for me?
My husband told me that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me.
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My wife built me a sheet fort in our living room for us to cuddle under and watch movies on a day when I was having a bad day. It was spectacular!
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Second comment because I want more vaccines!
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Seriously awesome. Thanks for spreading the word about a great cause!
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the nicest thing someone who is not related to me did is:
an acquaintance, after the birth of my second child, came & cleaned my house (including scooping all the dog poop outside) simply because she had wished someone had done the same for her when her child was born. it’s a big reason why we are friends now, and have been through rough times.
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One of the nicest things someone ever did for me was to reach across the back of the couch and hold a stranger’s (my) hand when I was quietly being miserable watching my boyfriend flirting up a storm at camp.
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I work one of those jobs that involves taking care of others and managing fairly serious crises all day long on behalf of other people (though, I suppose that could be said of anyone’s job…). Anyway. Often enough, I fall into that terrible habit of taking care of everyone but myself and my partner has the greatest way of gently reminding me to pause and eat, or put down my laptop and sleep, or moving my car so I can get out of the house more quickly in the morning. It’s the little things, you know?
I’ve always wanted to buy groceries for the person behind me. Just someday. Without them thinking I’m a creep or looking for payback or anything.
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Someone once asked me if I was okay when I looked like I wasn’t. I thought it was such a nice thing to do that I ended up marrying him.
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My youngest daughter has a bleeding disorder and spent 3 weeks in the hospital suffering complete renal failure as a result of an allergy to her medicine. $125,000 later, we owed just $2000 more and my husband’s friend took a collection at his store where complete strangers donated the final $2000 dollars.
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Love this campaign so much and thanks for letting me witness it and comment!
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The nicest recent thing: My boyfriend sent me a text saying he’d come spend the night and get my four kids up and fed and dressed and to school the next morning so I could go to the early morning yoga class I’m missing so much now that school’s back in session. And he did the same thing this week, too. 🙂
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My three-year-old-son tells me often that I’m nice and I have nice hair.
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jessica gallagher you are pure sunshine ..
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