Jamario Howard and his friends added a special guest to their table while eating at Brad’s Bar-B-Que in Oxford, Alabama, last week.
“So tonight JaMychol Baker, Tae Knight, and myself went out to eat at this place called Brads in Oxford, and after us sitting there a while waiting on our food I noticed an elderly woman sitting alone,” Howard wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday.
“My exact thoughts was ‘dang I’d hate to have to eat alone.’ So after thinking about it a minute, I walked over to her and asked if I could sit with her. She said yes,” he remembered.
“We talked for a minute, and after a while of talking she told me she lost her husband and that tomorrow would have been their 60th anniversary,” Howard continued. “I instantly gave my condolences and asked her to come eat with us, which she was excited to do.”
Howard emphasized a wholesome moral to the heart-warming story:
The point in this is always be kind and be nice to people. You never know what they are going through. This woman changed my outlook on life and how i look at other people. Everyone has a story so do not judge! And people i can’t stress this enough. GO SEE YOUR MOM AND YOUR GRANDPARENTS. They miss you!!
The post has since gone viral. At the time of this writing, it has been shared nearly 50,000 times on Facebook alone and inundated with more than 16,000 comments of support and encouragement for the compassionate deed.
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