Rewards For Doing the Right Thing

Often times you hear about people getting recognized for being outstanding citizens by doing something very generous. One news story that recently came up was a young boy, Joey Prusak, who was working as the manager of a Dairy Queen in Minnesota when a blind customer came in. That customer dropped a twenty dollar bill and a woman behind him simply picked it up and put it in her pocket.

Joey confronted the woman and asked her to give the man his money back and when she refused he kicked her out of the store, told the blind man what had happened and then paid for his Dairy Queen using twenty dollars out of his own pocket. Joey is now being recognized by the president of Dairy Queen and random customers are coming in to give him twenty dollars for the kind act he did. What Joey did was a great thing but it was also the right thing. When did it become unusual for people to show these acts of kindness and when did they not become a regular thing. Americans have stopped trusting people and not giving people enough faith to do the right thing that when someone does something that should be recognized as normal it is made out to be a heroic act instead. Simple things as holding open the door for the person behind you, or giving back someone their money they have dropped is now becoming something people see as generous when it used to be apart of peoples everyday lives. People who did not practice these kind acts were seen as rude and now it is seen as normal. Will we ever be able to go back to trusting strangers and having these kind acts be normal again?