pay it forward
The idea of paying it forward isn’t one that is at all unfamiliar to me. I’ve experimented with it here and there, but I’ve never been so intensely surrounded by it – Karma Kitchen, the people I was staying with, etc.. I always viewed anything good I did for anyone at all an act of paying it forward. I had never actually taken part in paying it forward with money though.
After a day at Karma Kitchen, I went to the juice bar that Chris and Aumatma run together and grabbed an awesome green smoothie that Chris billed me for with a Smile card. I gave him a look and said, “Come on. You don’t have to do that.”
He smiles and responds, “You know how it works.”
Instinctively, I dropped a $10 on the table. I knew the smoothie didn’t cost that much, and normally, I don’t go to juice bars because I make all the same juices and smoothies myself for a fraction of the cost and…I just don’t like spending that kind of money. The generosity I was stuffed with just pulled that $10 out of my pocket, though, and nothing about it felt wrong. It was really just…good.
sidenote: pay-it-forward should become a thing. “pif it” for short. i think it could catch on.
