Archive for 27/06/2011

Smile please!

I have some new neighbours moving in and what is even better is that I know them through work!

They have a six month baby girl, Vera, who has to be the most smiley person I have met in a long time. She gave me a big beam when I smiled at her. Why is it that babies are so good at smiling? I am sure that is down to some form of protection, but it certainly contrasts with the reaction I get from adults when I smile at them, so I did a quick experiment in the last 24 hours and smiled at everyone in shops.

What results did I get? Well some people smiled back and that was great, some remained unsmiling but looked a bit taken aback and some just totally ignored me!

Perhaps being willing to make even a slight connection scares the hell out of people (or maybe it’s the way I smile at them!!).

Anyway I am going to carry on smiling as there isn’t enough of it in this world.

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