When my family and I were loading into our car, we look over and see a man sleeping on a bench. It didn't take us long to figure out that he was homeless. Just before we pulled out of our parking spot my mom noticed a pizza box and a drink sitting at the end of his feet. Right then I knew the artist inside of Cici's had bought that pizza and asked the girl to deliver it to the homeless man sleeping on the bench. While we were backing out of our parking spot my mom asked "I wonder if he needs another blanket to stay warm", almost right after we said that me and my other siblings agreed we should go and get him one and bring it back to him. We were driving down the road to go home to get a blanket for him when we decided to go to CVS Pharmacy to get him not only a blanket, but some food and some other things he might need.
We walked into CVS and started looking around for stuff that the man might need. Needless to say, we walked out of the store with a snuggie, hand sanitizer, wipes, a bag of pretzels, chapstick, a rain poncho, a water bottle, and a recycable bag to carry it all in. At the checkout counter I looked and saw that we had just spent about $50.00 on someone that we didn't even know or had met before. When we got to the Cici's parking lot again we noticed a group of kids out there talking to the homeless man, as we walked up to hand him the stuff that we got him the kids said "Oh good, they are helping too". As we gave him the stuff we bought, the other kids went on their way. I could tell that the guy was very suprised and confused as to why a family of strangers were giving him this bag full of stuff. My mom went up and rubbed him on the shoulder and everything we did brought a smile to his face. As we were walking away to load back up into our car, he called out and said "Where is y'alls church?", I turned around and told him that we went to Fellowship of the Parks. He didn't know where it was so my mom told him where it was and gave him directions, we invited him to go and check it out and I told him that we go to the 11 o'clock service.
After he asked us where our church was, my mom told him that it is still good that he has his faith and hasn't lost it. He told us "Oh yeah, people want me to be mad at God, but why be mad at God? I'm not mad at God, I'm mad at the Devil. The Devil uses the laws and legal ways to put people like me where I am today". When we were getting ready to go back to our car he said "Thank you, y'all are really good people". I guess he saw the smile that I had on my face when he told us that because when we were in the car leaving, he waved with a big smile on his face.
Ever since then, I have been in the best of my moods today. Our deed today reminds me of a movie that I watched a while back called Pay It Forward. We saw a man order a pizza and a drink and gave it to a homeless man, the kids saw that and bought him something, and we saw the man buy him pizza and that inspired us to go out and buy him things he might need. Pay It Forward is a movie about the same exact thing that we did today. If the world would pay it forward and do something nice to someone that they don't know, the world would truly be a better place.
