Do you ever Pay It Forward? Pay for the order behind you in a line? Leave the cart at Aldi for someone walking in?
Do you accept the gift, and thus end the act?
I accept an Aldi cart if offered, and leave it for the next person.
I have paid for others meals before. I always try to leave the cart or offer it to others. Often I’ll get a cart for an elderly person headed toward the carts. Always open doors for people (not just women). I try to be helpful and polite in society. I don’t expect it from others. A gift should never have any strings attached.
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Not really.
I try to be a good person. I don’t believe in karma in any religious sense of the word, but I have a general feeling/hope that if I try to be fundamentally kind, the world will, on balance, be kind back to me. And most days, I feel like that’s enough.
Probably naive, because I’m old enough to have seen how that can backfire. But I act that way anyway.
Family and friends are different. They get the best I have to offer, all the time. What I have to offer is often badly flawed, but there’s no sense of doing it out of karmic balance or anything like that. They’re my people and I back them up.
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Yes. Especially when I’m having a day or pissed off about something. I can always seem to get out of a funk by doing something nice for someone…
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Last week I was getting donuts for the family and I bought another 4 bags full. On my drive home I pass along a fwy that is heavlly wooded, and super soft sand. A bunch of homeless people live in there, and you can see their shopping carts all along the row of bushes, because it is too hard to pull them in that soft sand. I stopped and dropped off a bag at each cart, next time I think of it I will grab some extra burgers at In n out to drop off..
We do give to several charities, but somehow feels good to just cut out the middle man and go direct..Seems like a good lesson for the kids too at this age,it seems to resonate with them to help the less fortunate..
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