Scrolling Saturday is a meme in which you dig up an archived post, dust it off, and repost it. This meme is hosted by Such Simple Pleasures. Read what other people re-posted by clicking here. New Friends - Originally posted January 4, 2008, not that long ago, but since my son's friend is over tonight, I thought it was appropriate.
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A few days ago, my son and his friend were riding in the back of my Forerunner on our way to spend Christmas gift cards. They were playing a game where they waved at people in other cars and tried to get the people to wave back at them. They decided that the people who waved back were nice, and the people who didn’t wave back were “sour.”As we were walking in to Target discussing their poor results (1 in 5 waved back), I told them to smile at people because if you smile at someone, they will smile back. I believe that is true, and we had fun putting the theory to the test. I'm going to take my own suggestion and try to smile more. People can’t help but smile back, and it fits with my intention to project happiness even when I might not be feeling very happy. Maybe in the process, I will make a new friend.
I am reminded of a song we used to sing at Campfire Girl camp:"Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold."
What a great post!
ReplyDeleteI use to love riding my bike to work since I ran into so many people on the bike path. I would shult out a friendly good monring...and by the time I biked to work, got showered and sat at my desk, it was a good morning no matter the work or crap ahead of me!
i used to love doing that...waving to see who would wave back. in our day, more people would wave back, than these days...people are too busy talking on the cell phone to be friendly!!
ReplyDeleteexcellent post!
ps...i remember that song from girl scouts!!