Thriving Thursday

Welcome to our new weekly segment!

“𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲” is where we will take time to highlight positive things happening in the world. Often, news and media sites are riddled with sad, disparaging stories, so it’s important to remind ourselves to “take a moment to see the good.”

This week’s Thriving Thursday story details an Uber driver’s kindness in helping a stranger during their moment of desperation. A college senior, Joey Romano, broke his wrist in Austin, TX while skateboarding and decided to call an Uber instead of an ambulance. Not only did the Uber driver, Beni Lukumu, drive him to the hospital free of charge, he also stayed by his side for his entire visit once he found out Romano didn’t have any family nearby. Because of this beautiful act of kindness, these two are still friends 7 years later.

A quote from Romano sums it up perfectly: “That one act of kindness helped me see the good in the world again,” Romano says. “Having him spend his entire day with me — a complete stranger, for no reason than the goodness of his heart, helped me to put things into perspective. Beni absolutely changed my life.”

Read the article here: https://www.today.com/…/uber-driver-stayed-passenger-er…