A little smile can make a big difference in someones life. As I took this journey to move across the country I have come across so many different people. All of which are smiling. Everywhere I go I look up and people give a simple smile. While at the grocery store I am walking through the isles and I look up to see someone smiling at me and even saying HI. It is almost like when I first lived in the rural area of Morgantown, Indiana while driving through the country side people would wave to the oncoming driver.
I find myself wondering if those random people I come across would be smiling at me if I were not smiling too or even looking up at them would I see them smiling? I have made this adventure a positive one. Don't get me wrong I feel sad on some days but I remain positive and try to smile as a walk along. Everyone from the people at the check out in the store to meeting people at the church that we have found. People are generally happy and full of smiles to give to a stranger.
I have come across people on this journey that I know were put in my life to get me through this journey. I meet a beautiful women on a flight back to Indiana from San Francisco when I came here for my birthday back in June. I did not even get her name, but she was so kind and we talked the whole way home on a flight from Las Vegas. She had been visiting her daughter here in California and was on her way home to sell her house and pack her life up to come back here to live with her daughter. She had lost her husband to cancer a few years earlier and really had nothing left back home in Indiana but she was reluctant to leaving her life that she knew behind to possibly finish her life here in California with her daughter. I felt so blessed then to have someone to talk to about a journey that I felt might be a possibility in my life and in hers. It was almost like we were meant to meet along our journey to get us through to the next step.
Another women I meet while sitting in a hotel bar waiting on a friend to meet me from Boston. I struck up a conversation with her because there were famous people there at this hotel and that is why she was there, to see these famous people. The famous people ended up being the Mexico soccer team. Being that I have some soccer experience I thought this was pretty cool however, I didn't know any of these famous people and really did not know much about team Mexico. As I sat there and had this conversation with this women she was so nice and shared so much about the surrounding area, the bay area. She helped me pass the time while I sat there waiting. In the end I offered my name and she offered hers. Her name was Cecilia, my mothers name. I gave her hug and told her that it was meant to be that our paths crossed. Just a little smile to get me through on my journey.
I am so thankful for smiling faces that I meet along the way. It definitely makes a difference to have smiling faces that are so welcoming and inviting to a new a different place. I came here to Cupertino not knowing anyone but having people not only here in Cupertino, but also in the San Jose and San Francisco area, a little smile does help me get through along the way.
SMILE! :)
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