Smile!!!

Hi all! How's things? Hope you're all mighty fine and, most importantly, smiling! And if not, why not try it now - for me, for you, for everybody? :-)

I sometimes get a feeling that someone I know and love isn't having such a great day, so I send them an SMS (text) with just a smile and a kiss - :-) x
It's amazing how many times they call me later that day to tell me what a profound effect it had on the way they were feeling - be it about themselves, their work, the argument they had earlier on, whatever.

So SMILE people, you never know what a difference it will make to someone you see during your day. You may just be buying a newspaper, or getting on a train, passing a stranger, or even looking IN THE MIRROR! Smile :-)

So many times I'll be in a shop, buying whatever. I approach the counter to pay for my goods, and the person serving tells me the price (at least I assume it's me they're talking to, they don't make eye contact). I make some comment about not quite having the right money, but will this do? They grunt and hand back the change. I bid them farewell and smile, but they're not even looking at me.

I can't help thinking that however discontented they are in their admittedly mundane job, how much happier and rewarded they would feel if only they would allow themselves to connect, if only for a fleeting moment, with the person they were 'serving'.

Sometimes I make an extra effort to catch their eye, and if you try you can make them smile, or blush, or even giggle. I try to be complimentary, cheeky, even rude - just to get them to react, to come out of the deep apathy they seem to be so stuck in just for a second; and once they have I can see the difference instantly. They seem flattered, grateful, awake! And I know that even if it doesn't last beyond the next indifferent, rude, superior customer, I have made part of their day brighter, and mine, and maybe it'll rub off on someone else who really needs a smile.

I'm ranting a little now, but living in England can make you a little sad sometimes. To be honest I don't know which is better - to be in America where everyone smiles but you can never be sure who's being genuine, or to be here in UK, where at least if someone is miserable you know they are being straight up! lol

I'd better go, before I really get started.

Meanwhile, here's another piece of my music - all made on my PC this time. It's just a very rough idea of what will come when I can record it properly - the orchestral strings were rushed and the sounds are crap, the guitar had cheese-wire for strings, and there's no tune. But hopefully the fairies that appear at about 1:30 will make you SMILE x

Love 'n' light, your Stuee xxxxxx

P.S. And if that doesn't do it for ya, maybe this will! It's me, exceptionally drunk, still going strong at 7.?? am, on the morning after a bachelor party... If this doesn't make you giggle, you have no soul :-)