[Djinn8]

So a while back I tried to commit suicide. Some "friends" stopped me and I was taken to hospital. Rather than actually take care of me, the doctors stuck me in a closet and left me alone. I waited in this tiny cubical for ages before deciding that I need to get out and have some air.

Outside there were a couple of guys smoking and this girl hunched up on the curb sobbing her heart out. The other guys were ignoring her, but I decided I should make sure she was alright. I walked over, sat down and asked what was wrong and she just unloaded the stream of woe on me. I can't remember what it was all about. Something to do with her boyfriend, her kid, drug problems, the whole deal.

After about 10 min of listening to her and nodding along, she asked me if I had a spare cig. I said I didn't, but got up and walked over to the guys by the door and got one off them. I went back to the girl and we shared a smoke. She asked me why I was at the hospital but I didn't feel like telling her and said it wasn't important.

Just then a doc came out and called her name. She looked at me, reached over and hugged me, whispered in my ear, "thank you" and kissed me on the cheek before running back inside.

As I said, when I had arrived at the hospital things were as black as they could be. But the gratitude in this girls voice filled me up to bursting. Even at my lowest, when I felt I had no worth to anyone, I'd proved myself wrong in the most subtle way: through a small act of kindness.

[Clara22]

Thank you for sharing this!

[gayleggg]

Hope you are better now and thanks for sharing.