Smile to be Happy

What??? Do you think I've got it backwards?

Should it be 'get happy, and that will make you smile'?

Nuh-uh. I'm convinced - if you smile, you'll be happy. Consider this...

I went for a bike ride the other day and was really happy. It was raining and I was out riding my bike, enjoying the day. Of course, when I'm happy I want to share my happiness with others. So every person I went by, I smiled at. And guess what? They smiled back!

Maybe its hormones, pheromones, whatsits, whoseewhatsits...I don't know. But smiling at people makes them smile back. You can literally make other people happy just by smiling at them.

So what about smiling to make yourself happy? Does it work? I'm convinced.

I figure I'm not going to wait around until I get in the right mood, make the right amount of money, buy the right thing, get the right job, have the right thing happen to me. Heck I may as well wait until a knight in shining armour comes along on a white horse and sweeps me off my feet and plunks me on the back of his horse (never did understand that part - If he was a real gentleman he'd bring another horse, just for me!!) Anyway, I've never actually come across a knight in shining armour on horse...etc. (although I'm willing to be surprised. Bring it on!) Anyway, bottom line is I'm not going to wait around for one to appear. Which is the same as happiness. I prefer certainty. And the only thing for certain is what I can create. So I am dedicated to creating my own happiness... and guess what? Smiling is a a cheap, easy, free way to do that, which ALSO creates happiness for others. What could be better?!

So next time you're in the doldrums - smile. If you can't beat all those smiling happy people into grumpiness, may as well join them, don't you think?

Happy smiling :)

Bumper Stickers to get you chuckling

A friend sent me these when I was feeling a little down. Worked a charm. They make me laugh every time! Please share yours :)

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Horn Broken... Watch For Finger.
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I Have The Body Of A God - Buddha.
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Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult.
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If We Quit Voting, Will They All Go Away?
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He Who Hesitates Not Only Is Lost,
But is Miles From The Next Exit.
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You! Out Of The Gene Pool - Now!
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Stop Lights Timed For 35 mph
Also Are Timed For 70 mph
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Boldly Going Nowhere.
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How Many Roads Must A Man Travel Down Before He
Admits He is Lost?
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Thank you for this most amazing Day

I'm not religious but this poem really makes me smile. I find it's best read out loud with a huge grin plastered on your face. Or at least, if you aren't smiling when you start, I hope that you'll be grinning when you're done reading....!


i thank you God for most this amazing

I thank you God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(I who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any- lifted from the no
of all nothing – human merely being
doubt unimaginably You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e.e. cummings

A Bottle of Wine (a very cute story!)

For everyone who is married, was married, wish they were married, or wish they weren't married, this is something to smile about the next time you open a bottle of wine….

Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road. As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the Navajo woman if she would like a ride. With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car.

Resuming the journey, Sally tried in vain to make a bit of small talk with the Navajo woman. The old woman just sat silently, looking intently at everything she saw, studying every little detail, until she noticed a brown bag on the seat next to Sally…

"What's in the bag?" asked the old woman.

Sally looked down at the brown bag and said, "It's a bottle of wine; I got it for my husband."

The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said, "Good trade."