Smiling

Smiling is something that comes naturally to some and, then it’s like a forced emotion with others. I fall into the latter, well usually.

I find that I gravitate to certain people who just bathe you in smiles, and positivity, and boy do I need that. We all need to be taken aside and told how beautifully unique we are. Instead of trying to fit in a one size fits all box of beauty, coolness, and even relavence.

We strive to be someone we aren’t. Yearning with both hands for that one person we saw on a 10 minute TikTok that seems to have it all. We want to feel that level of comfort, that level of peace. We forget that we are not that person, and that peace is something so individualized you cannot reduce it to a specific path based on another’s life.

Peace seems to be a mad dash of a quest that you put out there each and every day to end up being in a chair, with a book, and a great drink, looking over the landscape. Oh wait that’s mine!

Whatever your quest is, for peace, happiness and the just right of everything remember to have mercy with yourself, and grace. Nothing was built in a day, nor will it be. So just find a smile and track it back to it’s source and move on from there.

After all, the thrill of the chase is fun, but a long lasting smile, that’s happiness.