Give a stranger one of your smiles, it might be the only sunshine they see.

Today has been such a frustrating day. I woke up to a screaming three year old, who in return received screaming from a 25 year old, and who in return thought it’d be fun to scream at me. WHOPPEE. Bye, bye good mood that was viciously sucked down the drain.

People often say that I let things get to me far too easily, but having constant issues with my family it gets kind of tiring. You expect your home to be the place that you can be yourself, happy and loved, but the sad reality is that is rarely the truth… for anyone these days.

What happened to home is where the heart is? Or home sweet home? It seems like a fake wish that rarely anyone strives for anymore. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love my family, and I love being around them, I just don’t like being here for long periods of time. I feel trapped here. Nothing I say is the right thing, I rarely do the right thing, and I feel constantly as if I am doing wrong.

It definitely takes a toll on someone when they are reminded, verbally, or sublimely on a daily basis that they just aren’t up to par. More often than not the person delivering these messages of inadequacy they don’t even realize how much of impact that are making. An impact that one day could potentially end up negatively.

I read a story a few weeks ago, and have wanted to share but have yet to find the right opportunity.

One day a man a man jumped off the golden gate bridge. When the police went searching through his house they found a note.

“Todαy I will wαlk to the bridge. If αnyone smiles αt me, I won't jump.”

I don’t know if I believe that the story is true, but either way I make it a point to smile at everyone now. Or at least I try to. Its simple things like that, that possess such a power and the ability to touch someone’s life and we don’t even realize.

As human beings we strive to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy, or insane in the membrane, that there are other people out there that think as we do, live as we do and love as we do. To know that we are accepted just the way we are.

Let me give you something to ponder… If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, majority of the time it’s not because they enjoy being alone, It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. But here’s the thing… When you have expectations of others, and those expectations don’t pan out, that’s when you fill yourself up with disappointment. Don’t expect so much of others; instead think of the little things they do, and cherish the thought and time may have spent to do them.


"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles, it might be the only sunshine they see."

One day, I was walking in the mall with my friends when the lady in front of us turns around and says to me "You have on the cutest outfit today." Smiles then returns talking on her cell phone. The part that gets me the most is that she stopped dead in conversation just to give me a compliment. The world needs more people like her. Random smiles GMH.