---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rajaram Krishnamurthy <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Oct 4, 2025, 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [KeralaIyers] Fwd - Touching To: <[email protected]> Cc: Narayanaswamy Sekar <[email protected]>, Chittanandam V. R. < [email protected]>, Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]>, Suryanarayana Ambadipudi <[email protected]>, Mathangi K. Kumar < [email protected]>, Rama (Iyer 123 Group) <[email protected]>, Mani APS <[email protected]>, Srinivasan Sridharan <[email protected]>, Surendra Varma <[email protected]>
🙏👏🌹👍 On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 at 19:08, 'N Sekar' via KeralaIyers < [email protected]> wrote: > > "My name’s Veronica. I’m 80. I live alone in a small apartment above a > hardware store in Brighton. I don’t have much, but I get by. Pension. A > little savings. My garden on the balcony, mint, thyme, and one stubborn > tomato plant. > > Every Friday, I go to the same supermarket. Same time. Same cart. I buy > tea, bread, canned soup, and always... always a chocolate bar. My treat. > > One rainy afternoon, I was in line behind a young woman. She had two > toddlers with her. One was crying softly. The other was holding a stuffed > rabbit missing an eye. > > She put everything on the belt, milk, eggs, rice, frozen peas, diapers. > Her hands were shaking. > > When the cashier said the total $38.76, she froze.... > > She pulled out a card. It declined. > > She tried another. Declined. > > She whispered something to the cashier. “Can I take the milk and bread > out?” Her voice broke. > > That’s when I did something without thinking. > > I handed my card to the cashier. “Put it all on mine.” > > The woman turned. Eyes wide. “No, I can’t” > > “You can,” I said. “We all need help sometimes.” > > I smiled. Grabbed my small bag. Left before she could thank me. > > I didn’t do it for thanks. > > I remembered being young. Broke. Scared. Raising my son after my husband > left. I once stood in a line just like that... and no one helped. > > So I paid. And went home. > > But here’s what I didn’t know. > > That woman, her name is Leila wrote about it on a community Facebook group > that night. > > “A stranger paid for my groceries today. An older lady with grey hair and > kind eyes. She didn’t lecture me. Didn’t ask for anything. Just paid. And > walked away. I cried in the car. My kids ate dinner that night because of > her. If you know her, tell her... thank you isn’t enough.” > > Someone commented “Wait - was she wearing a yellow raincoat?” > > Another “She lives above Thompson’s Hardware, right? I see her watering > plants every morning.” > > Within hours, people started showing up at my door. > > Not reporters. Not cameras. > > Neighbors. > > They brought flowers. A jar of homemade jam. A hand-knitted scarf. > > One teenager left a note “You paid for her. I’ll pay forward, I’m tutoring > kids at the youth center free now.” > > Then came the letters. > > A nurse “I stayed late to comfort a patient last night. Because you > reminded me kindness matters.” > > A man recovering from addiction “I returned a wallet I found. Thought of > you.” > > And Leila? She visited me last week. Brought her kids. We sat on my > balcony. Drank tea. The little one gave me the one-eyed rabbit. “He likes > you,” she said. > > I still go to the store every Friday. > > Now, sometimes, someone pays for my chocolate bar. > > And I let them. > > Because kindness doesn’t end. > It just waits.... for someone brave enough to start it. > > And if you’re wondering > you don’t need money to give hope. > You just need to see someone. > Really see them. > And say, without words, > “I’ve been there. I’m with you.” > > That’s how the world gets better. > Not in big speeches. > Not in headlines. > > But in quiet moments. > Between ordinary people. > Who choose to care.” > . > Let this story reach more hearts.... > Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer > <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=US_Acquisition_YMktg_315_SearchOrgConquer_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=US_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100002039&af_sub5=C01_Email_Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=0c38e4b0-a27e-40f9-a211-f4e2de32ab91&af_android_url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail&listing=search_organize_conquer> > > -- > On Facebook, please join https://www.facebook.com/groups/keralaiyerstrust > > We are now on Telegram Mobile App also, please join > > Pattars/Kerala Iyers Discussions: https://t.me/PattarsGroup > > Kerala Iyers Trust Decisions only posts : https://t.me/KeralaIyersTrust > > Kerala Iyers Trust Group for Discussions: > https://t.me/KeralaIyersTrustGroup > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KeralaIyers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/keralaiyers/1475130139.96875.1759585109007%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/keralaiyers/1475130139.96875.1759585109007%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CABC81ZcKBtXPgmbF2g%2BZ%3DMEyYYSjpJHFCdyaXvbvqZg_da9FYQ%40mail.gmail.com.
