Play it forward, you'll feel better

I happened upon Akoha by accident, really.  Tara Hunt, @missrogue, sent out a tweet talking about a crazy new startup that aimed to simply help people feel better.  Their system was to "play it forward," which simply meant to do good deeds for others without asking for anything tangible in return.  I wasn't quite sure how that would go over as many people are fairly set in their ways and may not quite understand the idea of simply helping people out.  In Judaism they talk about mitzvot and that's exactly what Akoha set out to do -- help people perform mitzvot.

I finally opened my deck of cards (a starter kit as Akoha calls it) a few days ago and registered my account with them.  It was a bit confusing to set up my whole profile and get the deck registered but I'm sure it'll get better.  I then set off to try to do a good deed.  It turns out it wasn't so hard.

One of the cards is, "Invite someone for drinks."  I figured I'd start off with an easy one and seeing as it was karaoke night at National Mechanics, I invited my friend Kara out for a drink.  Easy enough.  You wouldn't believe how great it made her feel.  She was looking for something to do as she had had one of those long, hard days and needed a release.  Not only that, when she confirmed our "mission", as Akoha calls it, I got karma points and got upgraded to the next level!  I'm still not sure what that means but it sounded cool and it made both of us happy.

The reason I'm telling you any of this is simple -- It's easy to forget that there are other human beings around you who could use a pick me up just as much as you could.  When your friends have a hard day with the kids, their parents or their egotistical boss a little support a

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[srcasm (Jesse Middleton)]

Do you play it forward? If not, you should... It'll make you and other people much happier! http://bit.ly/43EYJd

[Sean Power]

Thanks for the kind comments! Really looking forward to seeing you spread the goodness around!