That works.
I think some people buy into concepts, “pay it forward” or how everyone should be friendly, but it often comes across as forced.
I changed when I realized I did have some power, that saying hello or nodding did mean something to others. So I actually do such things with meaning, though maybe not as much meaning as when I did it rarely.
It seems like a subtle interaction, connecting wiyh others who have the same sense of the world, like the time I.held a door open for a group of women coming out of a shopping mall, followed by I think a teenager who had been holding the inner door open. Suddenly a shared sense of manners.
But it can also be odd, I do things without expectation of anything coming back, but every so often it does, and it feels like I’ve gotten a bigger return than what I gave. That homeless woman I gave a donut to last year, her face lit up and I.then realized she’d smiled at me previously, me not really understanding why I could cause that. We think we are invisible, but every so often such actions tell us wr’ve been noticed even if we hadn’t noticed eatlier.
