Pay it Forward Fridays

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

{Happy Friday my friends!}

Today I am passing along an idea that I heard on my local Christian radio station JQ99.3 here in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The idea, I suppose, stems from the movie Pay It Forward (you know, the movie with the little ghost boy from The 6th Sense and Kevin Spacey?). Anyhow, the idea that the radio station is trying to implement involves random acts of kindness and reaching out to your community.

The idea is simple: When you go to a drive-thru on Friday for your morning coffee or lunchtime snack, treat the person behind you. Just pay their bill (yes the WHOLE thing). They even have these printable "coupons" that you can give to the cashier when you inform them of your good deed. They hand the customer behind you the coupon when they give them the wonderful news that, hey, their lunch is free! Personally I think it is an ingenious idea and I would be so happy ecstatic if this happened to me! So, today, I think I will go out for lunch, and take the person behind me as well. :)

What do you think?