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Do you "pay it forward"? Both positive/negative...good/bad....kind/cruel...truth/lies? Are you equal opportunity and just let 'er rip?

You reciprocate everything forward. You may not be able to get back at someone who screwed you but you can screw someone else. Do you? Or is it just the kind and thoughtful the helpful that you reciprocate forward? Why?

Posted - February 10, 2019
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  • 46117
    No   

    I try to show gratitude.   If it is a bad outcome, I need to turn it into a positive or at least not pay it as a revenge tactic.  This is not the world of Sharon, the world of TRUMP or the world of any one individual.  We are a society.  There is a reason we are gathered together.  So, we can learn to compromise and share and learn from one another through the language of love.

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at February 10, 2019 5:06 AM MST
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  • 113301
    Beautiful graphic. Thank you for your reply. Every day I try to reach out to people and be helpful or polite. Strangers, acquaintances, whomever. Let some in line in front of me...once I let about 6 people in line and the cashier asked me to please stop doing that. It was delaying her break. I open doors. I compliment people who catch my eye because of something I think is beautiful. I get away with a lot because I'm old and not threatening so I can say what I think (I only ever verbalize the positive) and often end up hugging the person I complimented. I'm not joking. If I can make people feel a tiny bit better as I pass through the world I do. Why shouldn't I? Thank you for your reply Sharon. I will tell you that at our local  Walmart I'm on a hugging basis with about 8 employees. I know something about their families and their concerns.If I don't show up on our normal Walmart day they will always notice and say something. I TAKE THE TIME to make contact. At our local Winco there are about 4 with whom I have a hugging acquaintance. There is a couple I met in the produce aisle months ago...Larry and Janet...customers.  We started chatting about the produce. We kept bumping into each other at Winco twice a month on Wednesdays! We exchanged phone numbers because if I don't see them on those Wednesdays or they don't see me we worry. The friendship or acquaintanceship is at the store. We haven't socialized outside the confines. And so it goes. It's funny. I was a painfully shy loner as a child. Now I go out of my way to make contact with people. I have years of isolation to make up for I guess and I'm doing the best I can to make it useful to others. Apologies for the length of this. I shall do better futurely. This post was edited by RosieG at February 10, 2019 5:15 AM MST
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  • 46117
    We are not that different, you and I.  
      February 10, 2019 5:14 AM MST
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  • 35826
    I try to be respectful to all. Sometimes I do fail and return the fire I received.
      February 10, 2019 5:57 AM MST
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