Smile Givers…
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” Mother Teresa
I came across this quote the other morning as I was doing my daily devotional. The chapter I was reading at that time was talking about being a servant and doing things for other people for the sheer desire to do something for someone else.
We all have down days, but we have to be very careful not to let those down days build up and start feeding off of each other and turn into depression. Depression is a sickness that is rooted in selfishness and too much idle time to think about everything you don’t like about your life. Which is why when times get hard and our cloudy days seem to run one into another we must turn ourselves into Smile Givers. We can evade depression by doing nice things for other people, by being smile givers.
In our society technology has taken over relationships. I talk about this all the time, but one of the top five things on my pet peeves list is cell phone etiquette, or lack thereof. I can’t stand it when we are out to dinner and people are texting or on their phones or when you are trying to have a conversation with someone and they start texting or when you are in the car with someone and they are on the phone…I could go on but you get my drift. People spend so many hours on the internet, playing video games, texting that we barely know how to have relationships with each other. A friend can be really going through something, but we hardly take the time to look in each other’s eyes anymore to see what’s hiding there. There are needs all around us, and I’m not just talking about the huge needs that surround us daily, but I’m talking about simple, easily fixable needs, but we are often so busy, or so focused on our gadgets and distractions to notice.
My challenge to you is to start being a smile giver. Do something nice for just one person every day and see how much better you feel. If you want to be happier in life, start sowing seeds by doing something nice for someone else and watch how your attitude begins to change. The key to happiness is not in how much money we make or the titles behind our names or the degrees we have or the stuff we accumulate. The key to happiness is what you pour into someone else’s life. Once more people begin to realize this, I believe our world would slowly but sure start becoming a better place.
Peace y’all
B
