Pay It Forward Day - on Facebook

A social networking "event"

December 1, 2010

Okay .. I admit it .. I'm a sucker ..

I have no idea who the creator, David Del Mondo, is (apparently he's a student at UCSC, University of California Santa Cruz, where my lovely daughter, Ashlee, happens to be a 20-year-old Junior) .. but it doesn't really matter.

I'm a sucker for stuff like this, and have succumbed to a friend's Facebook invitation to "attend" the second annual Pay It Forward Day, a social networking "event."

Now I may be a sucker, but I'm no fool. This was an easy decision. Notice I've strategically placed some quotation marks around a couple of the words in that last sentence.

To "attend" simply means making a promise to do something special today (something of my own choosing, and almost anything at all will count). And I get to do it when no one's going to be checking up on me.

By "event" they mean "EVERYWHERE" .. or ANYWHERE .. which is easy enough, too.

But I was pleased to discover that 485,959 folks would be "attending" (more quotes .. read that "participating"), and that was early in the morning. I figure anything that can attract almost a half million attendees by 6:00 am will continue to climb all day long, and at least a FEW of these people are well intentioned enough to actually DO "something" for the cause.

And that's not a bad thing ..

Still, my question is, "Shouldn't EVERY day be a Pay It Forward Day?"

That's pretty much how I see it .. how I try to live my life. And I hope you do, too.

Yours in service,

Bill Murray
NAACC & LACP founder

PS: Here's YOUR invitation to attend the event:
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Click here to: Visit the Facebook Event page   Pay It Forward Day Public Event December 1, 2010 Time: Location: Created by: More Info: Wednesday, December 1 · 7:00am - 8:30pm Everywhere David Del Mundo David's 2nd Annual Pay It Forward Day December 1st, 2010 ‘Tis the Season! A random act of kindness goes a long way so… PAY IT FORWARD!!! What can you do? ON DEC. 1st... • Pay for someone's cup of coffee… • Buy someone some groceries… • Get the next person's gas… • Help someone out… • Donate something… • Be creative!!! When you do something for someone there's a good chance they'll do something for someone else. If not, at least you've done a good deed for someone. So on December 1st share some kindness and spread some joy! It can be as little as a few dollars or as much as you want. No one needs to know! Join me, won't you? (I'm trying to make this a national event so spread the word. Maybe one day it'll be a nationally recognized day!) I won't be offended if you don't decide to participate, but please... spread the word!