How do you "pay it forward"??!
Question: you remember the movie, with Haley Joe Osment ? It'd be a whole lot better world if everybody did, wouldn't it ?
Answers: you remember the movie, with Haley Joe Osment ? It'd be a whole lot better world if everybody did, wouldn't it ?
It certainly would be a better world, and frankly, we have lost our sense of "Community" when it was the norm rather than the exception. Neighbor helped neighbor, building houses and barns, etc., and no one expected payment.
Pay It Forward is also called the Trucker's Rule, and it is not a new concept. The theory is that if you do a good turn for someone, instead of them paying you back, they help someone else. This is especially true when you are on the roads, as truckers are. If you were stranded somewhere, for example, because you ran out of gas or money, some trucker might stop to help you out. He knows he will never see you again, and would tell you to Pay It Forward.
My family was helped once by someone nice, and since then we have always tried to Pay It Forward.
pay it front
You are right--I try to be kind to everyone and help when I can.
I was in a restaurant one time and there were three military people eating there ... on my way out, I left money to pay for their meal (it was a buffet style restaurant so I knew about how much it would be).
We had a situation in a local town here where someone started early one morning with buying someone's meal at a Cracker Barrel; that person then ended up buying someone else's when they realized what had been done and so on and so forth ... it was pretty neat to read about.
What goes around comes around my Grandmother always used to say ! ! !
Like those people at the Starbucks in Seattle that kept paying for each other's coffee. It's a pretty neat concept if you can get it started and keep it going...
not familiar with the movie.
My Dad lived that way. Back when it just started to be 'dangerous' to pick up hitch hikers, my Dad picked up a man and his wife (and brand new baby). Their car had broken down on the way home from the hospital (I did say brand new baby). The man kept asking how he could pay my Dad back, after all, he had his own wife and 4 kids in the car, too. Like always, my Dad told him to just do a favor for another stranger, you never knew when you would need help. We often needed help, my Dad's hobby was restoring antique cars to original, not for show. They were all we ever drove, all over the US. And we never met a stranger, every one asked about our car.
Basically, it's a chain letter. It eventually stops, though, because most people get distracted by other stuff and get no personal benefit from it.
"Reuben St. Clair, the teacher and protagonist in the book “Pay It Forward,” starts a movement with this voluntary, extra-credit assignment: THINK OF AN IDEA FOR WORLD CHANGE, AND PUT IT INTO ACTION. Trevor, the 12-year-old hero of “Pay It Forward,” thinks of quite an idea. He describes it to his mother and teacher this way: "You see, I do something real good for three people. And then when they ask how they can pay it back, I say they have to Pay It Forward. To three more people. Each. So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven." He turned on the calculator, punched in a few numbers. "Then it sort of spreads out, see. To eighty-one. Then two hundred forty-three. Then seven hundred twenty-nine. Then two thousand, one hundred eighty-seven. See how big it gets?""
All good things done come in ten fold. AMEN!
I pay it forward. Sometimes no one pays it forward to me. :P
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