Smile And The World Smiles With You.
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” – Mother Teresa
There is an elderly gentleman in my neighborhood who sits at the edge of his garage every day. He smiles and waves to everyone passing by. If your window is down he says, “Hello,” or “Have a nice day.” This seems like such an insignificant thing, but I look forward to seeing him out there, and on those days that I don’t see him it seems that I have missed something.
I think this world would be a better world if everyone smiled and waived to each other. I was walking from the parking area to my condo last night, when I walked by a lady going in the opposite direction. I smiled and said, “Hello.” She didn’t bother to look up or respond she just kept walking like she couldn’t be bothered.
These two people live in the same neighbor hood and yet two totally different attitudes. The elderly man appears to be happy and outgoing while the lady appears to be unhappy.
How many people do you walk by and yet they never make any kind of eye contact? Have we become a society of untrusting people? Are we too self involved that we can’t even take the time to smile and say hello? Do you smile and say hello or are you one of those that won’t look up when passing by someone?
Even in a place of business less and less people greet me with a smile. I would think that this would be foremost in job training. Teaching their employees to smile and greet the customer. And when they do it seems so forced, so phony. They are only communicating with the customer because they have to.
I must look like a grinning idiot to many people. I tend to smile a lot and say hello to most people. I love to make people smile.
Try this, for the next week every time somebody walks by you smile at them and say, “hello.” See how many people smile back. Who knows maybe you will make a new friend.