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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Lighthouse @ 4:42 PM
It’s funny how you're in a miserable mood one moment, and then smiling the next.
Bad days happen to just about everyone. I can’t honestly say that I don't have bad days, I have bad weeks. It’s a whole week where just about nothing goes right and I end up with a giant frown on my face. It a part of life and sometimes you just need to move on. It’s the Christmas season and instead of being happy, people get a lot crankier. Unfortunately I was a part of the cranky percentage. Just yesterday I went Christmas shopping for my family and nothing was right. I couldn't find the perfect present, I couldn't find the store I wanted, and the mall was about to close and to top it all off, my jacket was giving me a heat stroke.
With all of those things circling around in my head, I started thinking about how much work I still had to get done, before the end of the break. I'm the type of person who has way too much going on in her head. I'm constantly concentrating on too many things as once, which doesn't help. So along with this new added stress I had just about enough and stood in the mall. I tried to calm myself down, but then a miracle happened. A little miracle that was like the lighthouse in my dark moment. I looked up and saw a little baby sitting in his stroller, so I smiled at him. He smiled back and his smile was so pure and innocent that it made me forget everything. I felt light again and I realized what was I fussing so much about? If a little baby’s smile could turn my frown upside down, imagine the possibilities.
This Christmas season, open the door for someone, say thank you, or even wish them a Happy Holiday because you never know, you might be that lighthouse on someone’s dark day.