Pay it Forward!

I just watched this movie called 'Pay it Forward.' This 11 year old is doing a social studies assignment and decides to do the whole pay it forward. But he decided to help three people and the three people were supposed to help three more people. (until it had gone to tons of people) The first person he helped was this homeless guy and he gave him his allowance, to help him get a job. Turns out the guy started drinking again after getting the job, so it didn't go well for him. Then he decided the next person was the teacher who was making him do the project. He wanted the teacher to marry his mom, but that wasn't happening. So the next person was another boy in his class and these older kids were bullying him. So he tried to stop them one time, but didn't do much since they were bigger. Well he decided that his plan didn't work after all, but the teacher gave him an A for trying. Turns out that the homeless guy hitch hiked it to another town and while in the other town he saw a lady try to jump off a bridge. He stopped the lady from jumping and saved her life. His mom decided to go connect with family that she hadn't talked to in years. Her mom (the 11 year olds grandma) asked why she had come and she explained the pay it forward thing. Later his grandma was driving and saw this guy running, she asked him if he needed a ride. After driving away he asked why she'd done it, so eventually she told him the same thing. Awhile later this guy got in some fight and had to go to the hospital. They were concerned about him and tried to rush him into the ER before a girl who was almost not breathing. He noticed and told the girl to go ahead, it took some persuasion to get the nurse to take the girl before him. Her dad was really surprised and wanted to know why he'd done it. So he told her dad about it and later on the dad saw this random guys car get ran into on the side of the road. (some drinker or something ran into it) So this girls dad told the guy to take his car and he walked away. It turned out the guy who had gotten his car smashed was a news reporter. He wanted to know why the guy had given him the car, and didn't want it back. Well he traced the pay it forward back to the 11 year old boy even though it took a couple of months. He came to the town and finally found the 11 year old, and the 11 year old ended up on tv. Well the same day after the news reporters recorded him talking the teacher decided to get more serious with the mom. And the 11 year old saw the older kids bullying this boy in his class again. That time even though he was smaller he ran into stop them. But the kids had a knife, not sure how that happened at school. The 11 year old got stabbed and died, super sad. But everyone heard about it because it had been on the news and tons of people started doing the pay it forward. This quote reminded me of that, pretty cool and we should all do the pay it forward. There is enough bad in the world that we should change it. :)