essentially just those things that happen to you, or your friends, or friends of a friend that you think could give someone a laugh or a smile or a warmed heart on a bad day
i will start
i have this friend who's egyptian, and when shes in england she's the most intelligent, studious english literature/politics/theatre studies/wine nut you'll ever meet: she's hermione granger. that's not an exaggeration - if you met her, you would be like 'this is hermione - wow' because a) she's got the hair, b) she's head girl and c) she's literally the brightest girl in the world probably. she gets like hundreds of pounds a year through winning story, poetry and essay contests and the head actually increased the size of her bursary so she could afford to stay at school. she also loves puns and is bffs with my girlfriend-who-is-not-quite-a-girlfriend-but-sort-of-is. it's complicated.
so, anyway: that is her academic life. when she's in egypt, though, she helps out on the family farm. she told us this story in class today about the time she went back around 10 years ago. when they got there, everything was normal and in order - no unprecedented livestock deaths, everything was as expected. a week later, though, she headed outside and there was a forklift by the farm, which was very confused about so she headed closer to it to get a better look.
plot twist: it was not just a forklift. someone was stealing the cow. at about seven years old, there was literally nothing she could do about this, so she just watched as the cow was lifted and placed gently on the back of the truck.