your smile is a gift

I wonder how many people are happy. Happy with their lives, their work, their everything. I picked up a boomerang card the other day with the phrase ' your smile is a gift'. I wish the author meant a beautiful gift, however I believe you should interpret it as scary ....

Try it! Smile to people, on the street, at the train station, everywhere! Throw them a PROPER smile, one which exposes your teeth! My experience taught me that, unless you know the person, people are anxious to smile back at you. People think your weird, or that you want something (money would be good hehehe)! Makes me believe that they are either unhappy with their lives, grumpy old bastards (you see Art, this is the stuff that they want me to re-write!!), or busdrivers in Manchester.

Now, you might think that I live in some horrible city. Which is partly true by the way. But I have tested this abroad as well, and still crap results.

So, as a result, this is a task for all of us: Try to smile more often. To everybody. To friends, but also to the people you don't know, the mail-man and the homeless people. However, use your most grumpy face to the bus drivers in Manchester. They deserve it!!!