A Smile Card Challenge For A Girl Facing A Difficult Time
This is my first story and I'm very excited to share. As a young teen, life can be tough when it comes to exclusion, especially when it comes to someone deemed "uncool." To tell the truth, even as a leadership student, I was unmotivated to change someone's life since it could cost me my ranking. Sadly, in that week, my life went spiraling down when someone kicked me out of my group and told everyone else to ignore me. It was then that the truth hit me, that I didn't know how much exclusion can hurt. I had always been friendly with Patricia (as I will not take her real name), but never willing to be close friends with her and lift her up. I was always nice, just not very motivated. The week that I was kicked out of my group, though, I felt this hurt and throbbing agony of ... Read Full Story >>
- Posted by keepsmilin
- May 20, 2011
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A Little Encouragement And A Lot Of Smiles
I was visiting a resort, and when we walked into the restaurant. I noticed a violin player on the side. He had been playing very well for about an hour - with no applause. As he was about to finish, I started humming along, smiling, and encouraging my cousins to do the same. As he ended, he smiled and I got my entire family to clap, which set off a chain across the restaurant.
He smiled, and we told him how well he had been doing... which made him smile even more. He said that I'd made his day - which made mine :) Hooray for encouragement!
With this, whenever I see somebody performing at a restaurant, I smile and encourage them, just the way I would like to be. Kindness is just one of those things that fills you up on pure joy!
- Posted by keepsmilin
- Jun 6, 2011
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