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 
Awesome idea!
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I recently went on my first ever business trip and was a bit nervous and homesick. At the end of the first day, I called my husband to say good night. Before we hung up, he told me to check the music player on my phone. He had apparently saved a song on my phone before I left–a song that he wrote, composed, and performed himself. It was a beautiful surprise, and I still tear up when I hear it. 🙂
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Nicest thing ever done:
Psalm 116:
1. I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy, 2. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on Him as long as I live.
Also, of course, John 3:16
God so loved the world he gave his only Son, so that whoever believes in him should never die, but have eternal life.
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The nicest thing that happened to me today was a great conversation with a friend where we could be completely honest, but still tactful and loving, towards one another.
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Loved me no matter what
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Sólo quiero ayudar con mi comentario e informarme más de estae
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Supported me unconditionally!
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Whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed at work or with life in general, and I get home to see that an old friend has written me a letter or left a chatty phone message… that’s a reminder that even the littlest tokens of friendship are priceless.
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So many things: When I was at a particularly low point in my life, someone I had just met told me how loved I was; my parents adopted me when I was a baby and have loved and supported me ever since (27 years and going. BOOM); one of my professors in college gave me one of our textbooks for FREE (I still have it and plan to return it to him someday). Lots of things, but I could fill pages. 🙂
What a great goal! I think we could hit 1000 comments tonight.
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When I was young, a teenager, people in my town – my friend’s parents, my employers, my coach – were always looking out for me. At the time I don’t think I knew it was happening. As an adult looking back, I realize they could see clearly that I had problems at home. Thinking about the advice I received, the compliments, the rides home, even the “holiday bonus” I got from my boss that no one else got. . . it touches me to the core to know that the community was looking out for a young girl with no guidance and no support. All those things added up to me becoming a stable and successful human being, when the odds really were not in my favor.
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The nicest thing that happend to me today was lunch at the MN State Fair.
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I am so happy to be able to do something for a cause. I get caught up in thinking that I can’t do something because it’s not big enough, doesn’t help anyone really, or it’s something I just can’t step away from my real life to accomplish. With so many of us with lots of kids, lots of jobs, lots of responsibility, no extra money and lots of debt, I enjoy having the ability to do something that will actually make a difference. Thanks Maggie. Thanks for letting us all DO something to help.
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Just before I moved out of my parents’ house to move in with my husband (then fiance), my mother surprised us with a huge bin of odds and ends for our new apartment. She had apparently been assembling it for some time, picking up a few items here and there as she was out running her own errands. It was nothing fancy, just items like dish towels and soap and toilet paper, but it touched me to know that she was thinking of us . And, three years later, she still always has a little something for us whenever we visit. It’s the little things that shows she cares. 🙂
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The nicest thing someone has done for me is to forgive me.
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A friend came over almost every day for a week after my new baby was born and cleaned. She did it in a non annoying way. She wasn’t in the way and didn’t ask questions or try to hold the baby. She just cleaned and did laundry.
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“Just” being a friend…and believing in me:)
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It’s hard to know what the nicest thing anyone has done for me. So many small acts of kindness mean so much.
One thing I do know for sure, however, is that vaccinations save lives.
Excellent work, Maggie!
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We were at a busy theme park and I was juggling three trays of food with two kids dancing and tugging at my legs. An elderly lady behind me grabbed one of my trays and helped us to our table. I could not thanked her enough and was blown away by her kindness.
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The nicest thing someone did for me was get me vaccinated, thanks mom.
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My nicest thing is probably the kitten my boyfriend gave me when he had no interest in cats at all. While that particular relationship is no more, my cat Poppet has given me ten years of companionship and pleasure.
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My husband does the nicest things for me every day. Since I am trying to nurse my hands from overuse syndrome (I type all day!) he does the laundry and cooks dinner for the family!
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I’ve already shared a nice thing. I just wanted to save another life.
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I went to college in northern Idaho and getting to class in the winter, even when you lived on campus, could be perilous. Early one morning I fell on a frozen puddle and it knocked the wind out of me. A guy doing food deliveries nearby pulled me and sat with me for 5 or 10 minutes while I cried and caught my breath with his arm around my shoulders. It was the most genuine, caring act from a stranger.
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I was having a down day, one of those that I just couldn’t shake, and my 2 year old daughter stayed by my side the whole time. She worried over me and offered to get me everything from water to kleenexes. It was so touching and honestly she was able to cheer me up. 🙂
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A nice thing… sending me a gift, for no reason. This was nice.
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The nicest thing someone ever did for me was my friend, who bailed me out of jail. I’m sorry I wish I could think of something better, which I’m sure there is a better example. I will try to think of it and comment again. I really appreciate the offer that this company is donating.
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The nicest thing someone ever done to me is to help.
A lot of times a little help will mean a lot, so help your friend!
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brought me home made chicken soup when I was sick 🙂 It made me feel instantly better
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last year i spent 3 weeks researching in Nantucket and was super lonely. My birthday was not long after I got back and my boyfriend (who knows I am a maritime history nerd) made me out of beautiful wood a little boat with three whale stamps that fit into it. I almost cried when he gave it to me. it was so special and unexpected
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The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me is what my mom told me before she died. She told me she was proud of me and that I was a great daughter. We often had a strained relationship and it was exactly what I needed to hear before she passed.
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I think it might be those friends who have said “call anytime,” and really meant it. Here’s to saving lives…
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My grandparents paid for my rent all through university, so that my debt load could be a lot more manageable.
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My husband always brings me something (flowers, a coffee, a cookie) to cheer me up when I’m having a rough day. And my parents are endlessly supportive and loving – which is a very nice thing to have in one’s life (and for which you become aware of how wonderful it is when your husband does not have the same experience).
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they didn’t give up on me, long after they should have…
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I’m a teaching student and one of my professors spent an entire tutorial sharing a whole heap of tips and tricks as well as resources for our own classrooms. Definitely the nicest thing done for me this week.
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It has been amazing reading these posts all day – it changed my day. Thank you to everyone who posted…what a difference it made!
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When I was a little girl growing up, we were extremely poor. My Mother was a single mom raising 5 children while going to nursing school and working nights. Our Dentist, Dr. McVay, was so kind to us. He not only provided free dental care but one year for Christmas, he bought us all gifts “from Santa”. My gift that year from him was a lime green Sting Ray bike (remember those?)
It had streamers coming out of the handle bars and a banana seat. I was in HEAVEN. I only found out many years later that the bike was not from Santa but from Dr. McVay. He was an amazing man and I wish he was still alive so that I could thank him in person.
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my grandfather gave me $5,000 when he found out i was moving to new york
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My parents adopting me was probably the nicest thing that anyone ever did for me.
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a stranger overheard me looking for a dropped/lost $20 bill, then ran 2 blocks after me to give me his own $20
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My mom very often took care of my lovely and now grown daughter when I could not. Everything eventually turned out okay largely because my mom is the awesomest.
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How could anyone deny a child these things? Your amazing Maggie – truly amazing! You have a heart the size of the moon…may all the goodness you spread…may all that you inspire come back to you 10 fold….seriously.
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A nice person once picked me up and gave me a two hour ride into town when my car broke down.
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=)
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Nicest thing anyone has ever done for me? When life took a turn towards the difficult (crapy) they didn’t ask what they could do (because they knew i would say “nothing” because i’m terrible at asking for help) they just showed up and did…(because they knew me well enough and loved me anyways)
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reading these posts simply inspires me to be a better person – to realize the real joy is in the giving not the getting….
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keep it up!
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Genuinely listened when I needed it.
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Nicest thing anyone has ever done for me? The sponge bath that the nurse gave me after 26 hours of labour and a c-section. It was THE kindest thing and exactly what I needed at that moment.
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I was flying with my six-week-old baby and when we were getting off the plane, a man behind me commented that my son had been really calm on the flight. I said something like, yes, we are lucky that he is a good traveler. The man said, “he is calm because he feels so loved and secure.” Now, of course loved and secure babies can cry on airplanes, but I was so grateful to this stranger for giving me an unexpected moment of grace as a parent.
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