A Smile Is The Easiest Exercise In The World
Give your brain a natural high. It's fun. It's contagious. Laughter is a gift first to yourself and then to others.
“Use your smile to change the world; don’t let the world change your smile.” — Chinese Proverb
I‘m guilty of letting the world change my smile. It can sneak up on you. No one consciously says I am going to stop smiling and laugh less.
My mama smiled and laughed often. I use to believe it was my nature, but life has shown, maybe, just maybe, it was something I was taught rather than a natural state of being.
Sometimes it is hard to smile when life gets crooked. Choosing to smile can shift your mood and improve your perspective.
One of my dearest friends laughed easily and often. She possessed the gift to laugh at herself.
In personal adversity, she found humor from locking her keys in her car outside the doctor’s office to dropping her groceries in the front yard before getting inside. Or, having her car almost run her down because she was caught in the open door.
She actually called me on the phone right after to tell me about almost being run over by her own car to…
