Pay it forward Friday (January)!

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Pay it forward Friday!

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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It is times like this that I am really feeling blessed. I thought this would be something that I wanted to inspire people. If you’e not heard the saying, I’ll explain it to you.

“Pay it Forward” used to describe the concept of asking that a good turn be repaid by having it done to others instead.

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It really is something that I would like to explain why I am asking people to help make someones day a little nicer. I’ll explain why later on in this post. I thought this was a good idea when I had something that just made me believe there are good people in the world after all.

Acts of Random Kindness

Those of us who have fallen on hard times know how hard it is to get some of the basic things in life. I am not saying that it isn’t always going to be easy but I do know that a lot has happened in my last few months and if it wasn’t for the support of my family, I don’t know where I’d be or what I would be doing. That be said, I do have a small story I’d like to share with you to demonstrate just how much people need to help others right now.

Driving along in my small car, nothing says economy like a manual transmission car, I happen to stop to get a hair cut. After 3 months of not having a hair cut, I knew it was about time. My hair was constantly in my face and nothing I could do to it was to get it out of my way. I decided to go to a nice little out of the way Barber shop and get my hair cut, but unbeknownst to me was the price of the hair cut. I really thought I had enough money for the hair cut but when I walked into the shop, I found that I only had ten dollars and the hair cut was twelve dollars.

I tell the owner I don’t have enough money to pay him the twelve dollars, after all this out of the way shop doesn’t accept anything but cash. One of the patrons told me relax and sit down, he’d probably not take the whole ten dollars. I didn’t know if I could believe him but I sat down. After the patron that told me to sit down was done, I was next and the next thing I knew he gave me a ten dollar bill, saying here this will help you today with your hair cut.

I only had to pay two dollars for the hair cut directly. I know I’m blessed but I also believe that others should profit in his actions. So I thought about asking people to do something good for a friend or relative.