Smiles for miles...
I tend to be a very smiley person. One day last Spring a man in our building held the back door open for me. I smiled & said thank you.
He responded by saying, ‘You don’t know what a smile can do for a person’. I don’t know his name, but from that day forward, I made a concerted effort to smile at people in our building.
I will often say hello or a casual greeting in the hallways of our building. A smile will often put people at ease, if they are unsure of my abilities because I am in a wheelchair.
That man’s comment about how much a smile can do for another person, really made me think. You never know what someone else is going through when you see them in the hall or elevator. I do not want people to tell me all of their troubles, but if a smile helps to brighten a person’s day, I will smile from ear to ear.
You never know when you might be the person who needs a smile, so give a little smile now & then.
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