It's what you make of it

Each day you are given choices to make in life. A number of choices you make fall into the category of habit since they are executed with little forethought. Other choices have a more significant impact on your life. They are based on what you believe will best serve you at that moment in time. When these choices come from a place of love and caring, they take on a ripple effect. This is true in a recent situation where one person made a decision to pay it forward and anonymously pay for the purchase of the person behind them. This act repeated itself over one hundred times before the chain was broken. Think of the good feelings that this left for both the customers and the staff serving them. Each person involved made a conscious choice to practice a random act of kindness just as the person who broke the chain made a conscious choice to do so for whatever reason. It isn't necessary to think ill of this person since their reason for not continuing the pattern may have been due to lack of money to cover the expense. It's all what you make of it. Is where you are in your life today contributing to you being the person who pays it forward in positive ways or breaks the chain stopping the flow of the ripples?