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 
Though they would probably say that it’s just what is done, I’d have to say that the nicest thing that’s ever been done for me is just having my family and friends be present. Doing what they do everyday. Helping when and where they can, with or without being asked.
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The nicest thing ever? My parents have helped me numerous times, but the best was when they got in the car, drove two days to Dallas to help me move back home.
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Amazing! Way to go comments & Shot@Life!
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Showing some support! This is a great thing you are doing 🙂
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I’ll comment, I don’t know if I believe it will make a difference, but I will anyway.
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Contemplating the question has been pretty nice. Remembering and reliving my good fortune feels lovely. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to contribute! XO
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When I was on bed rest I had friends and family who took my daughter each day so that I could rest and go to my physical therapy appointments. They also brought me dinner several times a week for 6 weeks! My sister came once a week to clean my house and take care of me.
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I have been blessed to have been on the receiving end of many acts of kindness through the years – by family, friends and colleagues.I can’t isolate just one but thanks for making me think about them, and bringing a smile to my face on an otherwise dreary day!
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My hubby didn’t bat an eye when I told him what surgery for the dog would cost. He just asked how soon they could do it.
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All we have to do is comment to help these kids? Sounds like a pretty easy thing to do for something so important.
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The nicest thing anyone ever did for me pray for me and be my brothers and sisters in Christ.
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One of my best friends made a surprise visit for my birthday last year because she knew I was going through a difficult time. A mutual friend snapped a pic at the moment I saw her and the I love the look of surprise and pure joy on my face.
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My parents loving and accepting me even when I messed up. Thanks for a great way to help people!
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This is fantastic.
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The nicest thing in the world for me …hugs and kisses from my babies!
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Hi there,
This is fantastic – so glad to help you do such a good thing!
Mary
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how wonderful
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This is an amazing thing you’re doing! Cange the world!!!
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That’s a tough question, but recently one of the nicest things to happen to me, while cooking with my four year old son he said, “Mommy you are the cooker of love”.
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My boyfriend surprised me with a cupcake when I was going through a tough time at work and at home. It wasn’t just the cupcake but the fact that he is always there to listen and cheer me up when I need it.
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The nicest thing ever would probably be that my parents raised me. Now that I’m a mother, I understand!
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Yahoooo! Comment-ho! 1,072 and counting! Hope we did our job, and then some on top of that. Those kids pictures in the post are too cute to be sick!
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I can’t even count the number of nice things people have done for me. Thanks for doing this, Maggie.
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I wish every child in the world could be vaccinated.
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This weekend my entire family helped me move. I am grateful.
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The most recent kind thing done for that me that I didn’t expect was when I got locked out of my house. I was out on the street without proper attire or a phone or anything. A stranger walking by lent me his cell phone so I could call my husband. It meant a lot to me, because I seriously looked liked a crazy person, and I’m not sure I would have trusted my cell phone to me in his shoes.
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When I was a little girl I went with my parents to Tivoli here in Copenhagen and there was a jewelry shop. I stood with my nose pressed against the window. A man crouched down next to me and looked at what I was looking at. Then he went inside and came out with a small glass bottle filled with pieces of amber and closed with a tiny cork. He gave me the bottle, smiled and walked away.
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My now-husband, Chris, always hugs me when I need it, and does not judge. That is the nicest thing anyone can ever do for anyone else, I believe.
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One day at subway a random guy bought my lunch. It made my week.
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What a great cause. It’s hard to think of the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. But the most recent nice thing was my husband buying me a minifig TARDIS Doctor Who set for my birthday and my daughter making pictures for me to accompany it.
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My husband once organized a business trip so he could by me a pair of earrings I mentioned that I liked, since the store wasn’t in our provincial city. It was quite surprising!
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This is so wonderful! Who pays for the $20?
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Let’s save some lives!
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my boyfriend flew to london to surprise me when I was studying abroad and he lived in nyc. when i got home from class there was a pretty dress on my bed, roses, and a note to meet him for dinner. 🙂 now we are married!
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The nicest thing that ever happened to me was a friend who answered my phone call at 3:30am. I was hysterical with a panic attack and not only did she stay on the phone with me for over two hours, she gave me a referral to a therapist who changed my life. (Thanks Maeve, you were truly a life saver.)
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Reading all of these nice things, makes me want to DO nice things for others. 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration.
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The nicest thing that anyone has done for me was my husband meeting me at the train station after a week long trip with a single rose and a box of perfume.
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This happened at my 25th high school reunion a couple years ago. A guy from high school apologized for treating me poorly while we were dating when we were 16. He had dropped me like a hot potato and never explained why. We never spoke again….until our reunion. I thought it a very nice thing to do.
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Recently, via good vibin’ & an extra bike + helmet, a friend (or two, and a bunch of new friends) coached me (with patience overfloweth) through my first venture in naked bike ride-dom. Ok, so I was Tobias Funke and wore a royal blue bra with my blue paint, cutoffs, and fake moustache–but still! Also, my first bike ride ever ever in this city that’s been a home for a year now (PHILLY!). Terrifying and loads of fun–holy eff I did it!
PS Those purple overalls are KILLING IT.
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My sister listened to me over and over through the ups and downs of my 10 year relationship with bad growing pains, never telling me she’d heard too much or complaining I kept saying the same thing over and over or contradicting myself (both happened).
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The nicest thing I have ever had done for me was my Saviour Jesus Christ, dying on a cross for me. Everything else pales in comparison.
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As a clueless 22-year-old I moved to a new city in a new country with little money. Off her own back, a new co-worker picked me up from the airport and let me stay in her apartment rent free for two months. 16 years later, she is still one of my very best friends.
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Nice happens all around us, all the time. The big things — the huge heroic acts and sweeping, dramatic moments — get a lot of mention and replay, but I’m thinking these days that sometimes the nicest things people do are the little moments: smiling at strangers when they pass, holding a door open, taking a moment to give directions or answer a question for a stranger. Those are the moments that I usually forget to dwell upon, but truly are what make the world livable.
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Early this spring, a friend helped me dig up my garden and plant vegetable seeds. We are reaping the bounty of his generosity now. 😀
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This person on the Internet I don’t even know has given me the opportunity to help arrange vaccinations for children in need. THAT IS REALLY NICE. This person is pretty danged amazing.
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The nicest thing that anyone has done for me is reach out to me in the middle of a time where I felt so alone. He told me again and again how much I’m loved, until I really started to believe it. He brought new life to my Spirit. His name is Jesus.
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My mama came to stay with me after the birth of my son late last year. She cooked, cleaned, burped, changed, held and more. Oh, and she also helped take care of the baby. I was cranky, often unpleasant, and her kindness and good mood was never ending.
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My husband encouraged me to go to graduate school while he worked to support us. That is one of the nicest gestures of love I have ever received.
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My mom raised me on her own. She sent me to the best schools she could. Cooked almost every night after a long day at work. Taught me to be independent and kind. She gave everything she could to me and never complained. Now that I’m a mom, I’m amazed at everything she did without anyone’s help. The nicest thing anyone has ever done for me is raise me right.
p.s. i think this blog post is one of the nicest things i’ve ever read.
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On one of the worst days of my life, my brother came to pick me up and kept slapping me on the back while saying, “Isn’t this just the greatest day! Aren’t you just so happy to be alive!” and in his own way,kept me from having a nervous breakdown. I will never be able to express how grateful I am to have him in my life.
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