make someone smile and brighten their day!!!!

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Has a stranger ever done something that made your whole day look brighter? Perhaps they opened the door at the bank for you or let you go ahead of them in the queue? Remember how good it made you feel?

Making someone smile and brightening their day is one of the most generous things you can do. It has a ripple effect that touches the whole community; if you are nice to someone it is likely they will be nice to someone as well. In this post I want to show you some simple ways to make someone smile today.

Why bother trying to make people smile?
As I said in the opening paragraph the act of making someone smile touches the entire community. Try to think back to when someone last did something that made you smile or brightened your day? Do you remember how it made you feel happy and less stressed? Do you remember how it allowed you to be more friendly with your workmates, friends and family? A simple smile or friendly gesture by that stranger had an effect on your whole world, even if only for a few hours. It rippled through the people in your life. Quite amazing when you think about it.

So we know that making someone smile can change the whole community. But what else can it do? Why else should we bother trying to make people smile? Well there are a lot of reasons actually.

Firstly, it makes you feel good about yourself. When you make someone happy you really feel like you have done something good. So making other people happy makes you happier. Secondly, it is healthy. If you smile at someone and make them smile you are actively causing chemicals to be released in to your body that battle stress and cause feelings of joy. This is good. Making other people smile benefits both yourself and others.

As I said before, making someone smile is one of the most generous things you can do. The reason for this is simple: when you smile at someone or brighten their day you give something of yourself. You are putting aside your own selfish needs and wants for a moment to make someone else feel good.

Think about a man opening the door for a lady. This practice is about manners and being a gentleman but it is also about generosity. You are doing something for someone because it helps them. It is a small act but it can change someone’s entire day. In fact, it might change someone’s entire perceptions! Imagine if the lady you opened the door for felt badly about men. She may have had a few bad experiences with men lately and decided that they were all jerks. But you just opened the door for her. Now her mind might shift. It might not shift entirely but it might open up a little bit to the possibility that maybe there are some good men out there.

Making someone else smile or brightening their day is all about putting them before you. When you engage in this type or practice (and it is a practice) you also develop positive qualities in your mind like patience and kindness. But the main quality that you will develop is generosity. If you go out everyday and try to make the people around you smile you will develop the inner qualities of a very generous person. This is one of the most respectable and admirable qualities a person can posses.

It is so easy to give someone a smile...give them hope and love...and it will make you feel so much better about yourself ... as we go through life we meet all different types of people.. some homeless, some going through a tragic time in their life -we never know but i can usually tell when someone is down or having a "heavy mind"... and some of these people will never admit that they are lonely sad ot whtever it may be..
I have been told by many people i hardly even knew that i just has that certain something about me that they could talk to me ..that made me feel so good..As i have told many of ma friends and co workers.... i don't have the answers but i do listen... and i do .. I know i had to have this help at a time in ma life when ma world was fallin through .. but i met someone who totally turned it all around . I respect him so much for this and will never ever forget it.. He helped me in ways it would be hard to explain.. now he's ma husband and i can talk to him about anything..

I will sum this up as long stories get boring after awhile for some but all im saying here is give someone a smile.. a kind hello... just anything to brighten their day because deep down you never know what this persn is going through..

GIVE AND LOVE FROM THE HEART... and remember to always wear a smile... so keep smiling, keep sharing and caring...
with love and light to gude your way
Jazze...