Pretty much all my life if I wanted something it showed up before long.
Doesn’t work with money though, I have tried.
So we had a motorhome trailer, dirt bikes and such for the kids and I and we used to go for 2-5 day camping and riding.
Wife used to ride but gave it up.
Kids grew up, got jobs and we didn’t get to go much anymore.
One day I told the Wife I wanted to get rid of all of it and get a Mopar again.
30 years ago we both had Mopar daily drivers (when we met.)
Well wouldn’t you know, a 73 Dart popped up on Craigslist a day or two later.
Probably 10 years ago now.
So I call the guy and I end up telling him I would need to sell the RV first.
(This was when gas was real high and that thing took 100 gallons to fill up)
Two days later I end up selling the RV for more than I was asking.
(I know, right?)
So I call again and asked to check the car out and my Brother and I take off for a place about 130 miles from my house south west off Phoenix.
We knew the guy was driving it back and forth to work so it was drivable.
So short story, I decide to take the car.
He told me what he was asking on the first phone conversation we had.
I asked if the price still stood and he shuffled his feet a little and said he could take a few off but that’s all.
He was a young guy, not much mechanical knowledge and expecting his second little one.
Come to find out his Wife wanted him to sell it for obvious reasons, though he really didn’t want to.
We still talk on occasion and I update him on what’s changed with pics an descriptions and he is always exited to see the progress.
Also told him he would get first crack if I ever decided to sell it.
Anyway I told him the car was obviously worth what he was asking, so I gave him his full asking price and drove it the 130 miles home.
I get lucky all the time, so maybe he can get some lucky as well, right?
Remember this.
Young people sure could use help sometimes these days, and I believe that paying it forward can be well worth the effort in the long run.
You may never see that person again, but that one little bit of help when they needed it could change the course of someone’s life.
Maybe even many others, as paying it forward always seems to get payed forward many times over.
If some small act of kindness could possibly help change the course of a person’s life, maybe consider it.