Donate

In our life, we all make decisions. Sometimes they may be small decisions, while at other times they may be ones that will make a lasting impression on our life.

I have always been a believer of paying it forward. Not too long ago I wrote about a run in with a complete stranger, Pay It Forward

So what do you do when you are asked to give a dollar here or there? Lend a helping hand to someone who looks like they are struggling? Open a door for the person in front or behind you? Small things like this may seem like nothing to you, but to someone else they can mean the world. You never know just what a simple smile may do for a person. It sometimes brightens their day more then you could imagine.

I tend to be a rather private person when it comes to my own life beyond the internet. Not that anyone would find me to be extremely interesting or famous, but just because I tend to like being some what mysterious. So when ever I tell a personal story I tend to be a bit vague. So this case will be just like any other.

I have a friend who happened to lose her job a few months ago. She has been making ends meet by working a graveyard stocking shift at her local supermarket, along with the savings she had already set aside. I see her situation get a little worse each month. I hope for her sake that she will finally land a job close to the pay rate of the job she lost.

I thought to myself…what could I do to help her out? On a few occasions I have invited her over to my place for dinner. I know it seems like nothing, but that is one less meal she has to worry about feeding to her family. I have also offered to have her son stay over while she is at work on weekends so that she isn’t paying for a babysitter. My son is about the same age so it works out perfect.

Then I think to myself, isn’t there anything else I could do? Then Triond popped in my mind. I thought to myself, let me see just how many readers I can inspire to either donate or doing something productive. Anything, from $0.25 to even just a single dollar. A moment of your time. A kind word to a stranger. So I will put this to the test and see what good, if any comes out of it. If nothing, then at least I know that I have given some people a few things to think about. What comes around does go back around. The lord works in mysterious ways.