Happiness

Happiness comes when you are not looking, it peaks around the corner and shoots you with an arrow in a similar to cupid fashion. I am happy, deeply happy; life has been so good to me and every once and a while it hits me that even when my world is crumbling or I am really struggling, I am happy.

All my life I have strove to make people happy, it's my goal to crack a smile on some one's face, to stop some one's tears if only for a second, or just plain point out their luck when they have nothing else. Some find it annoying and others think it's a gift but I think the gift is the laughter, the smile, the hope, or the response you get from someone when you change the course of their day.

It's difficult at times to remember this gift and let go of the ridiculous and grasp the good. Last night I had one of those moments. After a small disagreement with a family member I was genuinely upset and could feel myself slipping into one of those bad moods where I am just miserable, but something or someone rather stopped it; she looked at me a smiled and made me feel so much better in that moment that I could let loose for a few hours laugh and enjoy my life. Thus, by the end of the night there was no negativity, no stress or anger, and I felt good.

Not everyone has the time or the patience to sit with a friend or even an acquittance and make them feel better or listen to them bitch, whine, moan, and complain like me. But what everyone does have is the ability to smile when they can, a smile is powerful. Give a smile, take a smile is a saying that I love. When you have the ability to look at someone a smile, do it, more likely than not even if they don't want to they'll at least grin back and next time when you need one, you will be one person closer to receiving one.

Chubbie Chick Lesson # 42 - Give a smile, take a smile <3