(December 27, 2014 at 6:44 am)bennyboy Wrote: I think the idea is if someone wants to pay you back, you just tell them to pass it on. I don't think you go around saying, "I'll help you, but you gotta make me a solemn promise."
This here. Pay it forward works by brightening one person's day via favor and not asking for anything in return... if they want to pay it back, tell them to pay it forward (if they're so set on tossing favors away: give them to others). That doesn't mean that you can't in the future ask for a favor of them... but it doesn't start the tally of a favor balance that way.
I'm more a fan of 'pay it last' when it comes strictly to monetary favors, but if I fall on hard times: I will ask if they can spare any of it at the time/soon. I'm just as happy thinking of it as a gift, a loan only in technicality.
Favors though? Sure, you could scratch my back after I scratch yours... but if you're going to be scratching someone's back like you're debted to do so? Scratch someone else's back. Please. SCRATCH IT FORWARD!
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
