i'm smiling

It’s really the simple things that brings it about, isn’t it? Nothing epic has to happen. Just the simplest memory. The corniest joke. The easiest action. The quickest words. The littlest thing. The smallest gesture.

It’s really not all that hard to make someone’s day. So why don’t we do it more often? Why don’t we just walk around giving people compliments? Why don’t we talk to the girl everyone else seems to ignore? Why don’t we drop a penny from time to time, to maybe make someone happy, even if just for a fraction of a second? Why don’t we tell someone that even if nobody else does, we care for them? Why don’t we wish the shy guy a happy birthday? Why don’t we smile at the science dork that everybody picks on? Why don’t we help up the “loser” that was tripped in the hallway, and has fallen in front of everyone? Why don’t we take the time to listen to the person who claims nobody understands? Why don’t we go play Candy Land with our kid sibling, even if we find them extremely annoying?

It’d be so easy. The whole world could be happy, if people would be willing to make a little sacrifice. But I suppose for the time being, I’m on my own in this, give or take a few others :)