From Hidden Brain Media, I'm Shankarvedantam. This is my unsung hero,

stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

I don't know the name of my Unsung Hero.

And here she was trying to encourage me that it was going to be all right.

Thank you.

You will forever be my own son hero.

Today's story comes to Brian Perkins.

A few years ago, Brian started using a cane to walk.

Now the thing about walking with a cane is that you've only got one hand to carry stuff.

And so this was just post pandemic. I had dropped off a bunch of clothes at

the dry cleaners to get done and had just gone back to pick them up. And I was sitting at the counter with my cane and I was paying and clearly had more than I could carry in one hand out and this woman, she was sitting by the laundromat and looked at me and she said do you need any help?

And I said no no I've got it I've got it and so I hobbled out to my truck and was just getting through putting it in the back seat when I turned around and I looked.

And there she was marching out of the dry cleaners with the rest of my laundry in her hands and she put it in the

truck and she looked at me and she said I know you you've been helping people all your life. Now it's your turn. Accept it. And just like that, she

walked away. Now to be clear, I didn't know this one. I had never met her and I'd never seen before.

But her words had a ripple effect on my life.

I learned that it was okay to accept help.

And so, over the years, and it's been a few years, I've gone from being grateful to my one unsung hero,

to having a whole chorus of unsung heroes who've helped me in many little ways

and made a difference in my life and learn that people like to help other people and that

kindness is not something that's forgotten and for that I'll be eternally grateful. Brian Perkins of Bitterford, Maine. Do you have your own story of an unsung hero,

someone who noticed when you were struggling and went out of their way to help?

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