Yesterday was an average day and I was exhausted driving home from work in the afternoon. All I could think about was the millions of things I had to do and how I was stressed and overwhelmed with everything. I pulled up to a stop light and I saw an older man in the truck next to me out of the corner of my eye motioning to me. I glanced toward him and first wondered what he was doing making funny faces at me, but I then realized he was using his finger to draw a smile face against his window at me and had a big grin on his face. He then pointed at me and then to his big smile, and I couldn't help but let a big grin spread over my own face. As I accelerated forward when the light turned green, I couldn't help but keep smiling as I drove the rest of the way home.
It got me thinking about how something as simple as a stranger smiling at you can make your day. One single man I do not even know wanted me to smile, just because. What if we all acted like that toward each other? Think of everytime you are driving down the road and pull up next to people at stoplights and glance toward them and they are yelling at the kids in the back, staring solemnly ahead, or just sitting there looking exhaused. If we could all just smile at everyone we see and even make a little bit of a fool out of ourselves in trying to get everyone else to smile, I really think this world would be such a happier place. The rest of my day yesterday, the image of the sweet old man with that goofy grin on his face kept coming to my mind, and I couldn't help but smile everytime.
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