Ten years ago my family had no money for food, much less Christmas presents.

My mom went to a small local shop to buy a few pieces of candy to put inside of our stockings. She left with an entire bag of candy and two bicycles for me and my brother.

The shop owner's generosity GMH.

About 15 years ago, it was illegal to have more than one child in China.

I was the second child. My parents gave up their houses, jobs, money and country just to have me.

They GMH

Two years ago, I was told that without a kidney transplant, I was going to die.

Just as I felt like giving up, my best friend died in a car crash. It turned out a week before she had registered as an organ donor. Thanks to her, I am alive two years later.

Brittney Marie Stanton, it is because of you I am alive. Forever a part of me, you GMH.

A few months ago, one of my best childhood friends died of cancer.

Devastated, I called my closest friend, and although he had to study for midterms, I talked to him the phone for almost an hour. About half an hour after we hung up, he showed up at my door out of the blue.

A teenager biking 15 km in the pouring rain at 10pm on a weeknight GMH

I'm fourteen, and I just had brain surgery.

I'll be out for our whole softball season, and I've been very depressed. I went to the first game, even though I couldn't play. I arrived to see every girl on the field had my number sewn on the front of their jersey.

I cried from happiness. My team GMH.

I recently cut my hair and donated it to locks of love.

As I approached the counter to pay for the haircut, the receptionist informed me that the gentleman who was getting his hair cut a few seats down from me had paid for my haircut.

He thought it was a wonderful thing that I was doing and that I shouldn't have to pay to help someone else. GMH.

My little sister was turning 8 a few weeks ago. We just moved here, so she doesn't have any friends.

The "scary" girl in my class overheard me telling someone about my little sister. She got a bunch of her friends to dress up as Disney princesses, her leading them as Snow White.

My little sister loved it. Those princesses GMH

Today, there was a blood drive in my school.

As the nurse was putting betadine on my arm, I look over to see on of the senior girls from my class. She is terrified of needles and was trembling as she gave blood. When I asked her she gave a simple response: Fear shouldn't stop you from doing something right.

People like her GMH.