I’ve sponsored this Pay It Forward For The Holidays initiative on the blockchain now for the past five years. In 2021, like the year before it, kindness is needed more than ever. This year has been a continuation of the most challenging era most of us have ever lived through and we need a little optimism and goodness more than ever.
When this all began back in 2016 I was just beginning to notice how the mainstream media was flooding us with negativity and consumerism and how we could counteract it. After the year we’ve had it means so much more.
After the countless challenges the past few years have thrown at us, many people are struggling both mentally and financially, many of them are doing so quietly and secretly.
Through my social media pages I’m fortunate enough to have a sizable global reach, an audience of extremely kind-hearted people. It’s my wish to once again call them into action. I’m a firm believer that there is still more good than bad in the world and, once again this year, I’d like to prove it.
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What I propose, if you can spare it, is to invest whatever you can afford in the goodness of humanity. You can use this to help someone you know or a stranger you cross paths with.
Anonymously pay for someone’s order in a drive-thru line at a restaurant, buy a hungry person a hot meal, drop off bags of groceries on the porch of someone less fortunate or simply hand someone a twenty dollar bill and say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whichever Holiday Greeting you prefer. It’s easy to forget that each of us are fighting a battle every day and, despite appearances, we have no idea what kind of struggles others are going through.
This idea is very simple but it serves a twofold purpose. It may just help renew someone else’s faith in the goodness of humanity and, I promise, it will make you feel INCREDIBLE! This simple act will bring you much more joy than anything that the cash could purchase. In fact, it might be the best gift you get this year.
I’ll be paying it forward myself throughout the end of 2021.
Let’s start a wave of light to drown out the darkness of this world…or maybe just cause us to forget about it for a little while.
Thank you for your interest in my work this past year. Life has taken me further away from blogging this year, I’m not posting as much as I used to and I appreciate those who are still with me.
Yes, 2021 has been difficult for us all in so many ways but I see the light of hope just on the horizon. 2022 is going to be an epic year and a return to the normalcy we all crave.
May your Holiday season be rich with all the things that truly matter. Let's work together to change some lives this year.
All for now.
With Immense Gratitude,
Eric Vance Walton
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