What is the nicest thing you've ever done for someone without their knowledge?

[softlyfalling]

Once I went to the market and there was a homeless woman there. I had seen her lots of times since her first appearance long ago (when she still combed her hair and washed her hands). I always came out with a bag full of soft fruit and coffee for her. On this day there was a child curled up beside on the concrete, sleeping, filthy, starving, bruised, unwanted, forgotten. A little girl. In all of my childhood, never once did anybody ever intervene on my behalf. Never once did anybody ever ask why i was bruised or why I had been missing for so long. They pretended I didn't exist, just like every single person stepping over this child to get into the market. For many years, I was conflicted and afraid that separating her from her mother was cruel and caused her pain, but I had no choice. I had to make the world safe for her in hopes that the energy created would influence reality in some hopelessly small way and other people would turn around and look at the lost little girls littering the earth. I had to make the child in me feel like somebody finally saw her. So, I called child protective services and sat in my car watching until they came and got her.
This may or may not have been an act of kindness in the purest sense. I hope it was. I really do.