Monday, January 4, 2010

Smile, you´re not on camera


My wife´s sister and her family have a brilliant reminder on their frontdoor (inside).

Wallet?
Keys?
Smile?


I think it´s brilliant. Too often we tend to smile only when provoked or see it needed. Think of the hundreds of people you pass by each day that misses that gentle stroke of a caring smile.
Think of what you do when you give a gentle personal smile to an elderly woman looking a bit lonely at the bus stop. She might be in a position were she hardly talks to anyone for a week, except the clerk at the grocery store. Give her that smile, maybe even go to the "extreme" length of adding a "good day young lady" and you will surely have made her next minute or day a bit better.

A smile can be a token of respect. Respect is often sorely missing in the right places these days. We respect the flue and other diseases but not our next kin. Strange if you ask me.

So remember. Because it´s not for the camera, but making others and your own day better. Go out, smile that wonderful gentle smile of yours.

It is that easy.

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