Smile.

Tonight I was browsing through Pintrest (a regular thing that I do during my spare time) and I came across this picture of a girl laughing. Even though she was laughing she didn't look happy at all. I mean granted it is a picture, but I think people get on pintrest and scroll and look at the pictures and the quotes and think "Yeah, my life is hard sometimes."

....And I see quotes like this and I start thinking, "Am I re-reading certain parts of my life??"  This is just one example.
And I start worrying about all of these things that are not there. I start worrying about problems that don't exist. I don't know if I'm the only one, but that's how I feel when I'm on Pintrest. I scroll slowly, and think about what my life is right now. Glancing through quotes I find myself relating it to some point in my life that is now in the past. Sometimes, I sit and wonder why some things are put in my life. I honestly believe that everything happens for a reason, but sometimes I can't find not one reason why that thing happened to me.

(I'm thinking all of this while I'm scrolling down Pintrest keep in mind)

And then all of a sudden something pops into my mind. Something that a friend would say to me all the time.

Smile.

I sat and thought about that person telling me that in my head and then I genuinely smiled.
Well this might not sound like a very happy moment, but it was. Very happy. Because right at this moment I knew that I had a friend, that no matter what happened, wanted me to smile. For the life of me that's all I want to do. Not only right this second, but for the rest of my life. Because to him when he tells me to smile it seems genuine.

And I'm sure he says it to everyone, it's still special to me.

Sometimes I let quotes, songs, pictures, or even other people make me think so hard at the potentially bad things I have going on in my life that I don't realize how lucky I am. I have a great family who cracks me up. Mind you we are a little bit misfit but we make it work. I have friends that I care about more than anything in the world.

Isn't if funny how thinking about ONE word that ONE person said can switch your whole day around. Heck maybe even my week.

So when you read this think of something that someone has told you that can turn your day around.
If you cant think of anything, you can borrow mine. :)