That moment when you find out the person in front of you at Starbucks paid for your tall iced mocha. Pure happiness. (Thank you a million, kind person.)
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Paying it forward is one of the newest fads to become important during our social life right now–but one that actually might be here to stay. Paying it forward could mean paying for someone’s coffee, tossing a few extra quarters into someone’s parking meter, or leaving a generous tip for your hardworking waiter/waitress. It only needs one person to start the trend to better someone’s day, week or even life.
These gestures can be the turning point in someone’s day, and completely turn them in a better direction because you never know what someone might be going through silently. If more people did one nice thing a day for someone, think of how drastically our world could change.
While this specific example deals with money, you can pay it forward with compliments or even just a smile to a stranger. I know these are all cliché examples we learned in elementary school about kindness–but they could be so meaningful to someone you don’t even know.
Think about it, one smile could be the best thing that a person receives all day, try it out tomorrow and see how paying it forward can make you and the people around you feel.