These days, the world often seems like a cruel and negative place. That’s why it’s so heartwarming that a social media trend is going viral that has people sharing stories of people doing kind things for one another!

Blogger Rachael Berkey recently took to social media to ask her followers to share a moment that a stranger did something kind for them. It didn’t take long for her post to go viral, and soon people from all over the world were sharing their stories of random acts of kindness.

“Please share your stories of the time strangers were good to you,” Rachael wrote in her tweet. “Mine was the cab driver who just calmly handed me an entire box of Kleenex as I wept in the back of a late night cab after saying goodbye to a friend.”

Please share your stories of the time strangers were good to you. Mine was the cab driver who just calmly handed me an entire box of Kleenex as I wept in the back of a late night cab after saying goodbye to a friend. https://t.co/AF1AiBlLQo

— Rachael (@bookoisseur) October 16, 2018

Some users had short stories about kind things that were done for them.

I dropped my wallet in a movie theater once. It was mailed back to me with everything in place, except they took the cash, and wrote a little note about how they really needed it but they wanted me to have all my cards and IDs back. I figured that $40 a fine payment.

— Alyssa Lott (@alottbot) October 18, 2018

I was walking in Boston lost because I had the wrong address (Should have been in Cambridge), it was pouring rain and I had 2 broken elbows and a car pulled up beside me and handed me a huge orange umbrella before driving away before I could even say thank you.

— Dr. Mindi Palmer Fried (@MotionDoc) October 16, 2018

Others needed a few tweets to tell their stories.

In Berlin I got my wallet stolen with everything. I now had no money for my entire 4 day trip, I still hadn’t even paid my hostel. I was crying telling a police officer and he sent me to a police station outside the city because all the city ones were too full.

— N (@natissss) October 16, 2018

I had no money for a metro pass tho. Another girl, Mari a student from Egypt who had also been pickpocketed was also told the same thing and saw me crying. Her and her boyfriend paid for my metro and told me to follow them to the train station as they knew how to get there.

— N (@natissss) October 16, 2018

They helped me translate with the little German they knew and stayed with me for HOURS until I got everything sorted. They then bought me another metro pass and took me all the way back to my air b&b. Which was across town from their flat. They checked up on me everyday.

— N (@natissss) October 16, 2018

The day after while I tried checking into my hostel I explained everything to the receptionist and told her my money was being sent that afternoon but i didn’t have it to check in. She saw my puffy eyes from crying all night and paid for my night with her own money!!!

— N (@natissss) October 16, 2018

She called a friend who worked at a nearby restaurant to give me some food and she would stop by later and pay for it. I was able to repay her the next day. If it weren’t for her, I would have slept on the streets alone. @wombatshostels you guys have the best employees!!!!

— N (@natissss) October 16, 2018

Another woman recalled the moment a stranger helped her in one of the darkest moments of her life.

When I got the message that my best friend died, I was on a layover on my flight home to see her. In a weird bathroom nook, I was sobbing, trying to get through to my mom, with no luck.

— Lacey (@lacey1211) October 17, 2018

The woman cleaning the bathroom overheard me leaving a message, sat down next to me, and said, “Baby, you need a Momma, you got one right here.” She put her arm around me while I cried for awhile, before gently reminding me I didn’t want to miss my flight.

— Lacey (@lacey1211) October 17, 2018

It helped so much having someone connect with me in such a deeply impersonal space after getting the worst news of my life.

— Lacey (@lacey1211) October 17, 2018

Others had story about the people who saved them when they were homeless.

I was homeless. It was in a suburb of Chicago in the winter, well below freezing. I’d not eaten or really slept in days.

A Pakistani family who owned a Dunkin Donuts invited me in, fed me hot soup and donuts.

They very literally saved my life.

— Lyn (Friendsgiving is coming!) (@lynlandon) October 16, 2018

I was 19 years old, 3 months pregnant, homeless and hitchhiking to LA with my husband. A random trucker picked us up in Utah, drove us to Orange County, let us stay overnight at his home, and brought us to St Vincent DePaul the next day. I’ll never forget.

— Wendy Engström (@wendyspins) October 16, 2018

These stories remind us of how important it is to be kind to one another. We never know when a small act of kindness is going to turn someone’s life around, so pay it forward whenever you can!