Kindness when least expected

This is my response to the contest hosted by @practicalthought - Share a time someone was surprisingly kind to you contest.

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This particular incident is an unforgettable memory for me.

One of this incident is of my childhood days. I was staying in a boarding school and it was not of very high standards. People would always look down on children from this boarding school because of it's very low standards. Even though I stayed in this boarding, the school that I went to for my education was of decent standards. I was a very sickly child and on and off would be down with ill-health.

One day I was in school and running down with high fever. I was a very timid child also, would never speak up for anything. During the break time, I did not get out playing, I kept my head down on the desk and was resting. In that time, one of the teachers who passed the class room must have seen me and came to me. She touched me and knew that I was not in good shape. In a normal situation any teacher would have told me that you can go to the boarding and rest. But she was exceptional. She asked me if I had eaten anything, I told her no. She left the class and after sometime she came with a glass of milk and some biscuits and asked me to have it.

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It was just not about the glass of milk that day, but she sat next to me and like a mother she nursed me. She made me drink and she sat next to me for some time very gently patting my head and back. I became very emotional and started crying and hugged her. More then the milk that affection was what I needed. I had no mother and in that moment she brought in all those feelings of a child and mother. Her name is Yasmin. Later on she arranged to send me back to boarding and from that time on she always had special attention on me. Looking at her always brought a smile on my face and on and off she would hug me.

How can I ever forget this kindness that she offered to a helpless little girl, it's left a very deep impact on just not my heart but my soul as well. It's been so many years but that school day still feels like a fresh yesterday memory. She was a God sent Angel to me that day. Her appearance was also very angelic, she had this very soft touch. She was a very special gift of god to me that day. In a place where I lived where there was zero love and affection and just that little kindness of her changed a lot within me.

This incident has been such a strong impact on my life that when I grew up also, I always kept thinking how could I also be like my teacher, what can I do for someone to make them also feel special in the manner that I felt and never under estimate the power of kindness , no matter however big or small. Everything is not about material things, kindness comes in many different ways.

Life teaches us big lessons in life in small ways.

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