427. Getting Unstuck

December 16, 2024•Ep. 427•3 min 20 sec

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We asked some of you to send us okay memories of a time when a stranger helped you out. Today we hear a story about some neighborly help.

About It's Going to Be OK

If you have anxiety, depression or any sense of the world around you, you know that not *everything* is going to be okay. In fact, many things aren’t okay and never will be!

But instead of falling into the pit of despair, we’re bringing you a little OK for your day. Every weekday, we’ll bring you one okay thing to help you start, end or endure your day with the opposite of a doom scroll.

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Hi, this is Caitlin, and It’s Going To Be OK.

The nicest thing a stranger has ever done for me is a few years ago, it was right before the pandemic, my, I had just found out I had gestational diabetes, and for some reason I was taking it really bad, because I think pregnancy is just a time when

we are like really mean to ourselves. We were just so mean to ourselves in the things that we are coming up short and just doing wrong. I just had gestational diabetes.

But anyways, so I was like in a state, and so I’m driving home and I pulled into the driveway and it is January in Montana. And I just cut it a little too sharp and my car bottoms out in the snowbank. And I just got stuck there.

And I was like, okay, this is officially one thing too many on my plate today. I was going to leave it here. I will come back later and deal with it.

And so I did. I went back inside and I hung out for a few hours and I was like, I should probably remove my car from the edge of my driveway. So I go out there, like seven months pregnant, and I am trying to shovel out the snowbank under my car.

And as I’m down on the floor trying to look under there, a shovel comes and it starts scooping the snow for me. And I look and it is a fourth grader. He, his grandma picked him up from school.

And he saw me on the ground. He said, Grandma, I have the helper. And so he hopped out and he unstuck my car from that snow.

It was the sweetest thing that’s ever happened to me. And I was just like, man, I needed this today. So to that sweet little boy and his wonderful grandma, thank you.

I’m Nora McInerny.

This is It’s Going To Be OK. We love hearing your OK things. You can email them to us, Igtbo at feelingsand.co.

You can call and leave a voicemail. We got a new number, 502-388-OKAY. Feelings and Co.

is a bunch of people who love feelings, including Claire McInerny, Marcel Malekebu, Grace Barry, and Amanda Romani mixed this episode, and our theme music is By Secret Audio.