Just Smile.

I never realized just how important it is to smile. 

We all realize and probably know that if you're have the hardest time in your life, if you can start forcing an honest-looking smile, you'll get through the day with a happier attitude? Just the fact your brain knows your smiling must send some endorphins or whatever, iunno, not a science major. Go try it, when your feeling just a tad down, force an honest smile, it actually works.

But i never realized how smiling for another person can not only make your day better, but can also make other people's day better. 

I see it all the time in television. A family doesn't have a lot of money and is struggling to make all ends meet, making crucial sacrifices such as their own materialistic happiness. Everyone is unhappy, but all the time, there's one member of the family, such as the young child, the wife, or the husband, who is able to stick optimistic and just laugh it all off, causing the other family members to see that there is no reason to stay unhappy, not when their true happiness was there all along.

And this is apparent even in real life, I was working as a counselor and there seemed to be one camper who didn't enjoy camp as much as the other kids, and I made it my mission to at least make him laugh, to make sure that he's not lying when he says he's having a fun time. I guess it was selfish of me to try to use him to grade my performance as a counselor, but when I finally saw him laugh, it made my day. The kid probably will never know just how important that moment was for me.

Of course, I'm not saying you should wear a big grin when you go to all sad events, such as funerals or at a hospital, but even these events need a person with a positive attitude, a thought that this isn't the end of something precious, but a beautiful journey that you must now go through.

I want to be that guy one day. The guy who can always smile through everything. Not so i can be fake to everyone, but so that I can cheer up other people just slightly when people are at their worst.

But for now, I guess I'll have to let other people smile for me, and let them make my day.