It Made Me Smile

A few weeks ago a good friend of mine sent me a photo that his sister had seen in a newspaper.  The photo was from 1995 and was of my great grandmother celebrating her 100th birthday surrounded by her family, and there amongst those pictured was little seven year old me.  The picture made me smile and it was all I could think about for days.  I showed it to my family and relived the happy memories.  This was one of those rare moments in life when rather than giving you lemons, it gives you lemonade.

It's easy to focus on the negatives in life, Lord knows I have been guilty of doing that myself.  It's far too easy to do in a world were such negatives are so easy to find.  These little moments of wonder and happiness are the things that make it possible for me to find happiness in the moment.  I've said before that I have no grand aspirations in life really other than happiness, and with little expectation it's easy to be content in the moment.  Happiness itself is something I guess I do want to have more of in my life, but as I said before I don't consider it an absolute, I don't view it as something where if I achieve x, y, and z, then I can be happy, instead I tend to view it more as what makes me happy, and how do I get to that place.

In a world full of lemons it's easy to become bitter and to believe that there is no sweetness left in the world.  Sometimes it takes just one little thing to remind you of the potential in life.  It's certainly easy to have a good day be ruined by one tiny thing that turns it around for the worse, but it's also easy to have a bad day be made a million times better with just one little thing that makes you smile.

I don't really have a point to this post or any great message to share, or anything deep to ponder.  I just wanted to share one thing today that made me smile as a reminder that as dark as the world may seem at times, there's always light, there's always hope, and there's always something that will make you smile, you just have to find it, or, let it, find you.