An Awesome Birthday!
York celebrated her 26 Birthday by performing 26 Random Acts of Kindness. Reading her diary you can actually feel the love that filled her very special day. It really is essential reading for anyone who is serious about world change and making our lives the best experience it can be. Some of her acts of kindness were leaving a bunch of flower on a car windscreen and taking coffee in to a group of employees at 4am.
York displays my attitude to the Pay It Forward Experience. These act should be completely random in nature. While there's merit in buying a homeless person a meal or babysitting for a single mum. Everybody deserves kindness in there lives and it is not for use to decide who needs it. Her decision to leave flowers on a random car illustrate my thoughts so well. York could not have known the owner of the car mother died the day before.
Through a random set of events, the car own posted his experience on facebook and the seven degrees of separation took over and word of the identity of the recipient got back to York. Many of us will never know the ripple effects of our random acts of kindness. However York's story illustrates how neat the 'randomness' of our actions can be, if we leave the recipients to chance.
Regardless to the approach you take to The Pay It Forward Experience what really counts is you are making the world a better place to live.
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