A Breath Of Fresh Air.

I have just finished watching 'Noel's Christmas Presents' and it has been a complete breath of fresh air. It has reminded me of all the brilliant people which live in this world who give their time, money and sometimes lives to benefit other people.

For people who don't know the programme Noel Edmonds surprises people who have done alot for their communities and families with gifts just in time for Christmas. From a teenage boy who has looked after his grandmother, three younger siblings and mother since the age of six because of his mother's cancer and rescued five young children from a house fire to a man and his two sons who have raised in excess of £70,000 for a hospice which looked after their wife and mother during the last few months of her ovarian cancer battle. This programme rewards their efforts with many different types of presents including family holidays and mini buses or house refurbishments for their charities.

This programme always makes me think of the wonderful people which inhabit Britain and the rest of the world ands shows me that people are not all terrible. Many of them are extremely good. The media pelts us with images of people who rape, people who kill, people who con, steal and hurt and we should be reminded of the good which people are doing all the time. Many people aren't nasty or cruel. Many people go a great deal of work for charities and take alot of time out of their lives to help other people. I'm not saying that everyone is nice, especially not all the time, but the majority of people are.

The work which people do for free and often at their own expense astounds me and I can't believe the lengths people will go to help others. The strength and positivity which radiates from these amazing individuals is overwhelming and a humbling lesson can be learned by all.

Another recent example of human kindness has been shown because of all this snow. People with 4x4s which are able to drive in these conditions have flocked to the local hospitals to ferry patients, doctors and nurses around. People have been helping their elderly and infirm neighbours get around and they have been driving people to important appointments, train stations and airports.

These things really have restored my faith in the human race. And it's all just in time for Christmas, the season of family, friends, loving and giving.