Blog Post for February 27

After watching the first half of Pay it Forward, you are already introduced the concept of “paying it forward”. What do you think of this concept? Do you think it works? Discuss a time where you feel like you “paid it forward”. How did it make you feel?

The concept of “paying it forward” is very interesting! The idea of doing good deeds and expecting people to carry on those good deeds so that it eventually spreads on to the world is very surprising. Like someone said in the film, it takes a huge amount of faith to put that kind of concept into motion. I think that it can work, however, everyone is different. If someone does a good deed, hopefully that would touch the other persons heart and that would inspire them to do a good deed themselves. I also believe that if the person truly wants to do good deeds, it has to come from their heart to truly inspire others to do the same. There have been a couple of times where I feel like I have “paid it forward”. Once, when I was having a bad day, I rode my bike down to the beach and I had a peanut butter jelly sandwich in my back pack that I didn’t eat at school earlier that day. So on my way back home from the beach, there was a young guy with a sign that said “hungry”, so I stopped riding my bike, went over to him and told him I had a sandwich and I gave it to him. He was very grateful for it. It made me feel good and happy despite my rough day. I felt accomplished because despite my rough day, I made his even rougher day that much better with a simple act of kindness.