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 
Hi. This is my comment 🙂
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Let’s do this! What an amazing way to do something good with a blog.
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Wonder Twins: vaccinate.
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Once, after a rather crappy day at work, I had to jog to the subway in the rain because I had forgotten my umbrella. I got caught at one of the red lights, and was standing there looking/feeling miserable while I waited for it to change when a random stranger came over and shared her umbrella with me while we waited on the light. It was a small thing, and thankfully not *the* nicest thing someone has done for me, but it was still pretty nice.
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My best friend just moved next door, so now whenever I’m having a rough day, she lets me come over, drink her wine, eat some of the amazing leftovers her boyfriend cooks, and cuddles me. It’s niceness on a regular basis.
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My son is the best gift I could ever have asked for. If anything were to happen to him, I would be heartbroken. Helping save a child by writing a comment is the easiest thing ever.
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many people have done nice things for me lately, especially since ive just got back to my home country, and they try and help me with work etc. but something that stands out to me is when my friend for my birthday made me pastries from my home country that i had missed sorely, and that she had no idea what it was until she googled them. such a beautiful friend and surprise.
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Nicest thing ever done for me? Friends and family just being there
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Vaccines are nice! And should be given to everyone.
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The nicest thing for me is my best friend always being there for me, even through the most horrific break up, listening to me, taking care of me, making me smile, and accepting every phase I went through. True friendship is the greatest gift 🙂
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looks like you’re already there! Wow. Love the cause
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Go go vaccines!
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How wonderful!
Vaccines are so important!
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A friend of mine flew in from another state to surprise me and support me when I was going through a very difficult time in my life. I’ll never forget it 🙂
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the nicest thing is…pretty much everything my Mum has ever done for me.
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Since my husband’s unexpected death this spring at age 43, many people have done many nice, if not downright wonderful, things for me. One of the first was 3 days after his death one of my college roommates flew across country to be with me and helped my buy clothes for the funeral.
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The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me is my mum quitting a job she adored to be my carer, when I was nine years old and really ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The selflessness and bravery both my parents demonstrated during that difficult and emotional time and since has motivated me and pretty much shown me how to be. I will never be able to thank them for it.
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i am lifted and carried by love all the time.
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Second comment because this is incredible!
Keep it up, lady. You are damn inspiring!
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A couple of years ago my husband was very sick, and in a medical coma. The voicemail I got from an old friend just said, “I have a connection through New York–I’ll be there in 2 hours.”
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When my husband asked me to marry him. 20 years later and I’m still pinching myself
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My mother being there for me all the time, no matter what. She is that nicest thing that has ever happened to me.
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The nicest thing anyone ever did for me is my junior high youth group leader arranging with my mom to “kidnap” me for a youth group event. He felt like I just needed a gentle shove into the world of socializing in order for me to reach my potential. It changed my life. Looking back on the last 20 years, it’s hard to imagine the direction of my life had it not been for that afternoon.
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This is probably the nicest way I have ever gotten to start my day.
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when my mother supported me and sued my father for me so that I could go to college.
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The nicest thing anyone has done for me recently is invite me to come and visit when I needed to get away from things where I was.
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I am beyond blessed, but the most recent nicest thing anyone has done would be a gift from my future in-laws. They recently gave my fiance the diamond from my (future) mother-in-law’s engagement ring to put in my ring. While the diamond is stunning and the gift beyond generous, it’s the fact that they have so much faith in our relationship to part with something so special that is so touching.
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Someone once gave me belgian chocolates after I was their shoulder to cry on.
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Last year, my best friend let me move in with her and her boyfriend when I didn’t know where else to go. After stressing about affording my own place, they asked me to stay with them as long as I wanted to. It was nice to have one less thing to worry about.
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the nicest of my entire life is difficult. but certainly among the nicest there is this one: my sister passing her love for me to her children.
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If I’m truthful, I would have to say my whole life has been full of thoughtfulness and kindess from a family and husband who love unconditionally, support and encourage personal growth and expression, friends during all stages of life that were there for great and trying times, and through my profession of nursing which often shows the greatest compassion and kindess through people’s darkest hours. I know Ihave been blessed and have loved reading other people’s moments of nice I also love the idea that through vaccinations many more people in the world will have the chance at health and happiness. Thank you!
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I am thankful for the wonderful friends I have. throughout tough times they’ve kept an eye on me and came to my rescue when I needed them the most. One of them brought me food and dessert when I had a 4 day old baby and was alone with my baby and husband in a foreign land. I can never forget that 🙂 another one looked at my car tires and worried I might get into an accident and lent me money and got me new tires when I couldnt afford them. I have many stories like these and we dont have time or space to write every single one of them 🙂 I feel blessed whenever I remember these kind people whom I hope to be close for the rest of my life 🙂
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I can’t remember the nicest things someone’s done for me off the top of my head, but here’s one that makes the short list. I lost my job about a year ago, and my sister went out of her way to see that I was occupied and not despairing. She would send me job postings and invite me on outings with her and my nieces and generally act like the most supportive big sister in the world.
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The nicest thing that anyone ever did for me was teach me to read: seriously. My mother saw me struggle to learn and worked with me every day. I was behind my classmates for three years but because of her persistence and faith in my abilities I caught up. Now I have a grad degree in literature and am studying to be a librarian so that act of kindness set me on my current path and gave me my wings.
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Last fall my husband had an unexpected health crisis, landing him in the hospital. My parents were unreachable. My sister was in Italy. I never felt more alone in my life laying there in bed waiting for our son to wake up. Over the course of the next few days people literally came out of the woodwork to help us. Watching our son while I spent time at the hospital. Bringing by food for us so I didn’t have to cook. Calling to check in and make sure I was okay (not just my husband-who is fine now!). Even our family practicioner pulling me aside in the hospital hallway and commanding me to rest and giving me a big hug. I felt completely lifted up by all those who surrounded our family at that time. And reminded that humanity is a wonderful thing to be a part of.
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Just out of college and pretty flat broke, I had a flat tire with no idea how to pay for a new one. A very kind friend paid for the tire to be installed which made a huge impact on me. I try to pass on those same acts to those in need.
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My husband takes the kids sometimes and gives me the evening off.
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I’ve been blessed with finding kindness in every endeavor, especially the ones that hurt the most.
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My husband has supported and encouraged me through college and generally made it possible to be a student and a better person.
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A dear friend jumped up in my face and chewed my ass at the same time! He told me I was too smart and too beautiful to be wasting my life on drugs. He demanded accountability from me. I’ve been clean seven years now. It really was the nicest thing anyone could do. Only a friend could have gotten up in my business like that
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Believed in me.
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The nicest thing anyone every did? My mom decided to keep me instead of putting me up for adoption when she found out she was 19, jobless and pregnant.
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It’s not really something someone has done for me per se, but my dad was spared from a cancer diagnosis today.
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I was an ESL teacher for a year in Taiwan. I enjoyed the job very much and I think the students did too. When I left that job, someone at work had made a scrap-book dedicated to me and my time there. It must have taken hours, the way it was done. Very thoughtful and unexpected.
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Nicest thing anyone did for me? My mom ignored her degree in English to keep me out of day-care all day by cleaning houses for 18 years while she homeschooled me… great sacrifice 🙂
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My 2 year old cousin puts her head on my shoulder and says “I lub you cousin Alison”
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In 2003, after years of misdiagnosis, my doctors found out that I have a form of epilepsy. I’ve struggled for almost 10 years since then to find great doctors (in two states), get on the best combos of medicine, go to work and attempt to maintain a social life of a young adult.
I could not have done it all without the support — intellectual, emotional, financial and physical — of my parents.
To say this is “the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me” is an understatement. This is a phenomenal degree of selflessness and generosity. I am so grateful that they are able and willing to help me.
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Love this idea. One year for my birthday, my husband and my best friend surprised me with a trip to Arizona to see my favorite musician EVER in concert (Jackson Browne). It was the best birthday.
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For my girls.
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When I was homesick in my first year of college my dad used to send me cards and little packages all the time. Some times they were from the cat and dog. He visited once for a long week-end and it bolstered me to get me through the rest of the semester (I moved to go to school closer to home at the end of the year), but we also had fun doing things in that city that I didn’t do alone or with friends. I still know that no matter what, my father is looking out for me.
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