Pay it Forward

Just came across this Facebook group, Pay it Forward Facebook style. Great idea based on a great book/movie.

Whether you've seen the movie or not doesn't really matter. Here's the idea: By joining this group you're pledging to commit ONE ACT OF KINDNESS. This can be to a friend or family member, acquaintance, or a stranger. It doesn't have to be something big. It just has to be SOMETHING you wouldn't have done otherwise. I know this is asking a lot of you from an internet group, but it's really a great opportunity for us to show the world what college (or high school) students are capable of doing!

Our world tends to be not such a nice place. Watching the news or walking down the street, wouldn't you rather see people treating each other with kindness for once? YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

After you've joined the group and are waiting for an opportunity to do something nice for someone, there's just one more little thing I'm asking you to do. Please INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS to join this group. Just think about all the kind acts that will happen because of this group as it grows. Please share with the rest of the group your kindness stories by posting what you have done on the wall.

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.

Here's a bit about the movie from IMDB.

A school social studies assignment leads to social changes that spread from city-to-city. Assigned to come up with some idea that will improve mankind, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can "pay it forward" and so forth, positive changes can occur. What appears to initially be a failure, is indeed a success that is not immediately known but is traced backwards by a reporter who is a benefactor.

Easy to do, accessible, purely positive. Social justice rocks.

Click here to join the pact.