“Everybody’s going somewhere,” my grandmother once said. “And everybody needs something.”

It takes a mighty big person to receive that something, only to turn it over to someone who needs it more.

The Sun-Gazette and other Pennsylvania newspapers recently recognized a need throughout the state to encourage random acts of kindness in our Keystone cities.

This Pay It Forward challenge, now is in its second week, adopts the concept first described by Benjamin Franklin in a letter written in 1774. In it, Franklin would lend an amount of money, if — and only if — the lendee agreed to pay him back by later passing that money to someone else in distress.

“This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money,” he concluded.