Smiling is a benign virus
January 21st, 2007 by Nadja
I just read a wonderful post at Creating Passionate Users. It’s all about smiling - and how smiling makes other people smile. With a lot of great examples, that really… make you smile.
…sometimes it’s the smallest of things that can make all the difference. Things that aren’t bullet points in the brochure or check marks in product comparisons. Things that just… make you smile. Things the one who made you smile didn’t need to do.
Please take their advice. Take the effort to make someone else smile. The smiles will spread in wavelike patterns - like a benign virus to the people around you - and most likely the world WILL smile back to you. Smiling makes the world go around.
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The one and only - Judy Garland
Spot on… evergreens definately make you smile…especially when they encouarage you to smile (though your heart is aching, smile eventhough it’s breaking :-)
The other day I was having a conversation with the great and inspiring Danish musician and artist Signe Høirup Wille Jørgensen a.k.a. Jomi Massage.
She told me she had started to live out a mantra from one of her lyrics - “speak out your thougts!” - this meaning that she would express her thoughts while walking the streets.
Passing a guy with a beautiful bicycle she would tell him - “what a cool bike you have” - instead of just thinking and quietly move on. And the biker would smile and say “Thank you”.
“What a nice haircut”, “That’s a funny looking dog you have”, “Why are you smiling”…
We experience and think a lot while walking the streets and these simple thoughts can open great conversations - if we dare to speak them out…! Something that rarely happens in Copenhagen for some reason.
It’s very basic, it’s very simple - but somehow people find it extremely hard.
I hope Signe is starting a wave that wil spread through the streets of Copenhagen and the rest of the world.
Interaction between strangers makes the world go around!
@ Mikael - What a great comment. Actually it’s so great and full of wisdom, that I wish you’d make a post of it. Smiling, interacting and sharing brainwaves most certainly make the world go around.
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