I'm a funny guy, at least I've been told I am. I personally think it's a load of crap but I've always been a poor judge of myself so hey, whatever. Of late it has dawned on me more and more that life tends to take us over. We have a tendency to get bogged down in its troubles that we forget we're alive to start with.
Maybe it's all the death I've seen, maybe it's my personal fear that by the time I die myself I wouldn't have stopped enough to smell the roses. That I wouldn't have made enough time to just find something to smile about. But we often underestimate the power of a single smile in our days. Would it hurt to remind the people you care about to smile?
I'm not saying sit everyone and lecture them about the importance of happiness. That's quite a mission. I'm not saying hold yourself high above all and be the custodian of everyone's smiles and shoot them out of your soft belly like Care Bears shot love out of theirs. No one is a saint. I'm simply saying sometimes in a day you may think of someone you care about. You may recognize a pattern in the life of someone you care about, a pattern which you can break with a subtle but powerful gesture. You may realize sometimes you have a gift for a particular person in a particular moment and that gift is the ability to make them smile. Give it. They need it.
We are social creatures, we thrive on the each other and the surrounding social condition. You'd be surprised how much good just making one person smile for whatever reason will do for them. And for yourself.
Make someone smile when you can. It costs nothing.
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