The idea...

I fear too many small things that usually make me smile go unnoticed, or even worse, I might be too preoccupied to smile. We get too strung out over things we can't change, misfortune happens. It might add six minutes if we miss a bus or train, yet we let it ruin our entire morning. A few years ago I promised myself to embrace even the smallest good moment for at least as long as I'd moan about the unfortunate one. It's raining, I don't have an umbrella but the bus gets to the stop the second I get there. Yay! Smile baby! This actually happened, smiling transformed my ride home. It was one of those no-effort-made days, no makeup, messy hair, old clothes but I didn't miss the bus! I smiled! And hey! People smiled at me, random people, friendliness overdose! Ha! Lesson learned but soon forgotten... Luckily I keep returning to this moment. I want to make others smile. My blog aims to help friends far apart to share seemingly meaningless moments so profoundly important to their relationships. I might be far away but I care about the small things more than ever. I most likely won't send an epic email anytime soon but I want us to share our daily lives. Nothing's too trivial.

Last night on my way home from work I got off the bus as it started pouring down, I did have an umbrella this time but it didn't do much, the rain was just too heavy. So I hid in the shop and then started walking home as the rain got lighter, my walk home is downhill and it was just to beautiful, I had this amazingly bright rainbow right in front of me at the bottom of the hill, I went to take a photo from the middle of the street, it doesn't do it much justice but it's still a good enough reminder every time I look at it on my phone. And then I had one of those comical moments, I crossed the street, still mesmerized by the rainbow's beauty and somehow dropped my shopping bag and an apple rolled down the hill, there I was running after my apple still trying to get a glimpse of the rainbow. I love moments like these. Nothing special but I walked down the sidewalk with a skip in my step, smiling and some old swing tune on shuffle providing the perfect soundtrack. Who cares about wet feet?