Feelings follow behaviour

Feelings do follow behaviour. You're driving in bumper to bumper traffic on a monday morning, a complete stranger in the car next to you smiles at you, you generally smile back and possibly bluch a little. The truth is that one simple smile, can positively influence your mood, which impacts how you react to others during that day. Yes, there are times when you feel grumpy as you sit in traffic and hardly want to smile back at the stranger in the yellow beetle but how much effort does a small smile take? Smiling does not require much, plus it generally makes one feel better and who knows that unexpected smile may just have a very good outcome.

My list of a few things that make me smile

• Finding R20 in an old pair of pants
• Hearing a baby giggle or watching a toddler woddle
• Catching up with an old friend
• Sitting at the arrivals terminal at CT Airport & watching the true happiness on peoples faces as loved ones enter through the arrival doors.
• Looking at old photographs and reminiscing about past adventures
• Finding a real bargain
• Waking up, lying in bed & realising its Saturday and you do not have to be up at 6am.
• Booking a holiday
• Landing at your holiday destination
• Mid week public holidays
• Graduation
• The smell of my mom's sunday lunch & the sounds of my family buzzing about the house.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller

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