Yes, you. You can change the world!
We all know the stories of the “Pay it Forward”s; the person in front of the Starbuck’s line pays for the person behind them. This once lasted an astonishing 11 hours and went through 457 customers consecutively. The St. Petersburg, Florida man who ended the amazing trend believed that people were doing it out of “guilt, rather than generosity”. Hey — Don’t get too upset with him. He still paid the Barista a $100 tip.
We hear stories of kindness all of the time. After all, we are all going through the grand motions of life every day, and sadly, I think some people forget that we are all going through it together. When we can remember this, we can make the world a better place. Everyone has their struggles, everyone has good and bad days. Maybe you can be the one to turn one of those bad days into a very good one.
How can you change the world? With one smile at a time!
When you smile, your body releases the feel good serotonin and endorphins, which reduce stress. Amazing, right? And everyone knows that frowning causes wrinkles — why do you think they call them frown lines?
Smiles are contagious. Just like yawning. Smiling at someone causes them to feel rewarded. Thus, they will respond with a smile back. See, contagious!
It is important to set the tone for yourself each day, then, you can spread your happiness and positivity to others. This will change their world, then they smile at someone else and it will change their world, and so on and so forth.
You see? Just like paying it forward at Starbucks. You can start the smiling trend instead and hopefully it will reach 457 people as well.
Just like Dory in Finding Nemo convinced herself to “just keep swimming”, you can convince yourself to “just keep smiling”!
So, go out and smile at someone today. You just might change the world!
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