I smile a lot. More than not smiling I would say. Oh yes, there are moments when I don't smile but that is specifically to convey non verbally something to another and it is coupled with a situation and not randomly dealt. This is infrequent though and I have to calculate not smiling because it is more in my demeanor to smile and it comes naturally without thought.
I do smile at people almost constantly while cycling though and the best and I mean the best is when someone wonders into your smile. I am cycling 8+ hours a week, so it is a good chunk of time. I smile at runners, walkers and cyclists that are going the opposite direction as me. I love it when their eyes sway toward your direction, they recognize you are smiling and they beautifully raise their own smile and then you whoosh by. Its like you said to each other in that precious second, I'm alive and good. Now some people don't smile. When I pass them, I value the smile a had even more, because mine isn't absent or hidden.
You can find smiles when you are hiking, walking in a store, out eating lunch, anywhere.
No matter what the day has dealt me, you will find the first things I do when I get home is say with a smile, hello, to each one of my family. We have already established through pattern and consistent behavior, if there are family issues to deal with, it does not have to interrupt the proper unification of all of us in the house before we begin to deal with them.
I do smile at people almost constantly while cycling though and the best and I mean the best is when someone wonders into your smile. I am cycling 8+ hours a week, so it is a good chunk of time. I smile at runners, walkers and cyclists that are going the opposite direction as me. I love it when their eyes sway toward your direction, they recognize you are smiling and they beautifully raise their own smile and then you whoosh by. Its like you said to each other in that precious second, I'm alive and good. Now some people don't smile. When I pass them, I value the smile a had even more, because mine isn't absent or hidden.
You can find smiles when you are hiking, walking in a store, out eating lunch, anywhere.
No matter what the day has dealt me, you will find the first things I do when I get home is say with a smile, hello, to each one of my family. We have already established through pattern and consistent behavior, if there are family issues to deal with, it does not have to interrupt the proper unification of all of us in the house before we begin to deal with them.
