Tuesday 29 September 2015

This is what humanity is about...







Traveling with a baby is never easy.
For new mom, Rebekka Garvison, it seemed nearly impossible.
Garvison had been planning a trip -- traveling from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Fort Rucker, Alabama -- to surprise her husband, Nick, a member of the U.S. Army, for quite some time. Although she was excited for the sweet reunion, she couldn't help but panic about flying alone with her daughter, Rylee, for the first time.
As she finally boarded her flight at 5:30 a.m., the mom looked around and noticed the airplane was packed. Even worse, it was quiet.
With Rylee in her arms, she slowly made her way to her seat. The already stressed mom hesitantly took her assigned seat -- with a less than thrilled looking couple sitting beside her.
A few minutes later, her daughter began to cry.
The mom frantically searched for an alternative seat. Luckily, she spotted a nearly empty row and a flight attendant willing to relocate the pair.
That's when she met Nyfesha Miller, an "amazing" woman sitting by the window.
"I'm not sure if she could tell how stressed and upset I looked or what, but she turned our day completely around," Garvison wrote in a Facebook post to thank the kind stranger. "Rylee wouldn't stop crying no matter what I would try and do....so she had asked if I didn't mind if she tried and of course I let her."
Rylee stopped crying the minute Miller began cradling her.
"When we got in the air she fell right asleep and slept in her lap the whole flight until we got to our gate," Garvison wrote. "She even carried her off the plane and held her so I could get the stroller and carseat put back together so I wasn't struggling to try and do it all alone."
The mom insisted she didn't want to impose, but the woman said it wasn't a problem; it was actually a "comforting feeling" for her, Garvison remembered Miller telling her.
So far, the mom's grateful Facebook post has been shared by nearly 85,000 people and received dozens of comments since it was posted last week.
Garvison even tagged Miller in her post.
"Nyfesha Miller, you will never understand how happy this act of kindness has made my family," she said. "You could've just rolled your eyes and been irritated like everyone else, but you took her and held her the entire flight and let me get some rest and peace of mind."
Miller replied to the viral Facebook post, saying she was "blown away" by the response.
"Just comes to show you how little acts of kindness really do go a long way," Miller posted.



Below is Garvison's FB post :

Something amazing happened to me today and I will never be able to express how grateful I am for it. If anyone has ever traveled with an infant you know how stressful it can be. Today, I was reminded that there truly are absolutely AMAZING individuals in this world even if they are complete strangers to you. I have been planning this trip to surprise Nick Garvison for quite some time and have been most stressed about flying alone with Rylee and all of our stuff to lug around with no help. As soon as we got on the plane at 5:30 AM it was very quiet and it was a full flight. I noticed that the 2 seats next to me were taken and this couple looked very annoyed and I could tell by their body language sitting right next to me that they weren't thrilled about sitting next to Rylee. Of course I'm already stressing and then Rylee started crying when we were just getting ready to taxi. I decided to ask the other flight attendant if I could move up 2 rows where there were 2 empty seats next to each other and I'd have more room to do stuff. She said yes and next thing I know I was sitting next to this amazing woman! I'm not sure if she could tell how stressed and upset I looked or what, but she turned our day completely around. Rylee wouldn't stop crying no matter what I would try and do....so she had asked if I didn't mind if she tried and of course I let her. As soon as she had her, Rylee was looking out the window and stopped crying. When we got in the air she fell right asleep and slept in her lap the whole flight until we got to our gate. She kept saying it wasn't a problem at all and it was actually a comforting feeling for her. She even carried her off the plane and held her so I could get the stroller and carseat put back together so I wasn't struggling to try and do it all alone.
Nyfesha Miller, you will never understand how happy this act of kindness has made my family. You could've just rolled your eyes and been irritated like everyone else, but you took her and held her the entire flight and let me get some rest and peace of mind. It brought tears to my eyes while I sat there and watched you and Rylee sleeping next to me. I just couldn't believe how that ended up working out and how caring you were to us. Thank you SO much!!
God bless you!!


Aww..that's really sweet, imagine the amount of happiness you would dispense in a lifetime if you spread kindness to one person a day.

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