Stories of Kindness from Around the World

Free Entrance to Football Games


--by twiceblessed, posted Sep 10, 2006
When some young kids showed up at our doorsteps for a fundraiser for their sports team, my brother asked 'em which school they went to.  It turns out that both my brother and I are alumni for that same school, so we made a little donation. While we didn't expect anything in return, we got a little "gold card" that gave us entry into all football games.

Now, no one in our family has time to go watch a  high school football but we didn't just want to throw the card away either.  So it was sitting nice and pretty on our staircase.

Last week, I randomly meet a young girl who is aspiring to be the student-body president.  She was asking my advice on a few things (my brother was actually the ASB president during his years).  And then all of a sudden, a flash bulb turned on in my head -- "hey, if you're running for ASB, you must go to football games, don't you?"  "yeah, yeah.  i'm hoping to go to all of them."  "well, wait here, just a minute."  And I went inside and gave her that "gold card" that was just waiting for someone to take it. 

I also handed her a smile card and instructed her about pay-it-forward to someone else.  This girl, she was much much younger than me but it felt like we instantenously became best friends!

Full of smiles, she left and she wrote back to me the other day about things she could do.

When my brother was making a $10 donation to his alma-matter's young kids, he had no idea that it would create this ripple of goodness.

And that's just the thing.  The impact of a kind act simply can't be measured.
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