faking it forward for 9/11

i'm starting to see facebook invites for an event to pay it forward on 9/11 this year since it's the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

while i'm cool with this concept and it's nice to hear that possibly thousands of people will go out of their way to do nice things for each other, i just don't understand why we need a specific day to inspire us to do so.

if you're cool with the idea of paying it forward (y'know, someone does something nice for you so you in turn do something nice for someone else) then you should be on the pay it forward tip every day of your life. it's not a way of remembering a tragic event, it's a way to live your life.

i don't think we need special days to inspire us to be better people. we should just want to be better people everyday. if that's not the case and you don't wanna be a better person, than why try and fake it for one day? pay it forward on 9/11, return to douchebaggery on 9/12.

it's like being nice to people you can't stand on their birthdays... that person is the same asshole they were the day before. why fake it?

or christmas... some people go around and say, 'tis the season....' and that should be enough to inspire you to be real nice to everybody. but that's something that should be trendy for ALL seasons.

if you pay it forward with me on 9/11, just know that i'll be a little weary of your tactics. it's like when most people go on a first date and they act as nice and charming as possible. but that's not really you!! that's you pretending to be better than you are so you can trick whoever it is you're dating into accepting you. and if they do, they're only gonna learn about the real you soon enough and be disappointed that they fell for it.

don't be a fake on date 1. don't be a fake on 9/11. take that person you're pretending to be in those instances and make some steps to become that person everyday instead.

that'd be some real paying it forward type shit right there.