Smile at at least one stranger per day.

I smiled at about 50 strangers today in the grocery store. I actually am quite good at this.

because everywhere I went, nice people held the door for me. I had the baby in her car seat and was lugging her around on errands. I was stunned by how many people held the door for me. It was crazy! It just reaffirms that there ARE kind and caring people everywhere. You just have to notice and appreciate them!

I find it easy to smile at people in Autumn’s school. Theoretically, if I meet them in the halls of her school, they’re either educators or support staff, all hardworking, underpaid, underappreciated folks, or a volunteering parent. Those people I can assume are decent folks, “worth” a smile. Also, they are likely to smile back, thinking the same of me. I just find it harder to smile on the street, or in the store, when I know nothing about the person and they know nothing about me. I guess this goes along with not judging…Isn’t anyone worth a smile? Maybe the irate people and the psychopaths stalking around in the world need a smile more than most. I guess this realization has led me to ask myself, why do I want to smile more…to seem friendly, or to be friendly? What am I hoping to “get out of it?” Am I trying to improve other people’s day or mine? These are questions to ponder…