His gesture has become an antidote to the gloom for millions of people on social networks Twitter and TikTok, and precisely the gloom of Mondays, the monday blues in English, a curse that the neighbor of Dina Mehmedovic, a New York student of a twenties, decided to thwart. So every Monday, at eight o’clock in the morning, this 90-year-old man rings her doorbell and brings her the doorbell without saying anything other than “good week start” an assortment of pastries, free of charge, without waiting for anything, before heading back to the door of his apartment, on the landing opposite. And start again the following Monday. It is this ritual that Dina decided to film and publish on her TitkTok account, with the following caption: “absolutely every Monday, here is what my neighbor offers me, I do not deserve this guardian angel!”
video/7002349233240067334" data-video-id="7002349233240067334" style="max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;">@medicalstudentlife he’s a literal angel of a human #wholesome #pure #cute #neighbor #stickybuns #UltaBeautyatTarget #adorable #elderly #happy
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The two passed each other vaguely every now and then in the stairwell of their apartment building, and then one day, and the man the student wishes to keep anonymous learned that her neighbor was starting medical school. He looked for a way to show her support, to encourage her, without being too invasive, and settled on the idea of the pastries. Every Monday, at half past seven, he goes down to the local bakery, takes a box and knocks on her door to give them to her, always before eight o’clock, before she leaves for class. The video had a completely unexpected hit, five million little blue hearts and thumbs, surprising for what initially started out as a stairwell anecdote.
Dina therefore decided to warn her neighbor, to explain to him that he has become an example of generosity on TikTok. And since then, the two of them have tea together once a week, and post videos to share their news. In the comments, some Internet users tell how much the gesture inspired them, that they too decided to talk to this stranger who is their neighbor or next door neighbor, and to break the generational barrier, to give a little time with nothing wait in return. This is not their goal at the start, but TikTok videos serve that purpose as well.
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