At home, school and church, I have been taught that the little acts of kindness make a huge difference. We don't usually have the opportunity to see these differences first hand, but sometimes, people tell us what a difference we have made.
I bring this up because I have had three different people recently express to me the difference my small smile has made their day. Honestly, I didn't even realize that I was smiling, yet I was, and one of these people told me that my smile was infectious. The other flat out told me I had made his day. There is a special feeling that comes when you realize that some small thing you did made a difference in one person If at least for a few minutes.
Maybe it is that feeling I get, a sudden inability to stop smilin, when I make a small difference, that makes me want to make a bigger difference. It's what drives me to write this blog, to write to publish my novel, that drives my desire to become a doctor.
Those are the ways I want to make a difference. How do you want to make a difference?
Maybe you want to become a teacher, an actor. Maybe you want to go into law, or politics, or maybe you want to protect our freedoms by serving in the military. Maybe you don't go to grand measures like these, but prefer to make a difference by touching one life at a time with a smile.
It doesn't matter how you choose to make you difference, because I promise, once you realize the good you are doing, you will be overcome with such a feeling of joy, you won't be able to stop smiling.