Sometimes a story you read can take you back to vivid memories of your own. And so it was when I read Jaime Thurston’s story of how she created the kindness website, 52 Lives.

This is how she told the story in an interview last year:

“It began in 2013, when I came across a wanted ad on a classified website – it was a young mum looking for someone to donate a rug to cover her broken floor so her toddler wouldn’t cut his feet.