New Happy Darcie

I was on the subway the other day and I noticed this woman with a perma-smile. When I caught her in my field of vision I thought she was smiling at me, and I smiled right back, thus proving the theory that smiles are contagious.

So I thought, why don’t I start that. Since Sunday, I have been making a conscious effort to keep a smile on my face at all times. Trust me, this is not easy (and therefore I will take a whole day’s worth of frustrations out on this blog). It’s just not easy for me, being a city girl, to brighten my eyes and keep a happy look on my face. It probably looks like I just got botox and can’t change the look on my face.

But I’ve been doing it anyway. I’ve been getting TONS of smile backs, which is awesome, but a few memorable moments occurred that I am going to attribute to the smile:

Sunday- Grocery store- walking up to the store, I make smiling-eye contact with some guy playing loud music getting out of his car. He smiles back a big white teethy smile and shouts “Hey girl! Come and dance with me!” and starts dancing in the parking lot. I kept my smile on. It was actually pretty funny. Later on, in the store, he spotted me around the corner of an aisle, and said “Hey! It’s the dancing girl! How are ya! You know, you are fine looking!” and high-fived me. To be clear, I did NOT dance in the parking lot.

Monday- Gym- Some Asian guy sitting directly across from me on a cable machine took my smile well- he did the Asian nod and ninja-quick “hi” with a big smile back. I smiled at tons of guys I normally make the puke face at when I see them, so I got tons of excited smiles back. Some were a little frightened. I can understand.

Tuesday- Gym- the boxing instructor asked for my number, after saying that despite me having been a member at the gym since September, he’d never noticed me before. The smile drew him in. I know I am doing opposites of what I said in an earlier post, but an ex of mine gave me shit for saying I don’t, when he and I went to the same gym for probably a full year, so I have to date guys from my gym now. AND- I had the best yoga class ever (the smiles are actually making me happy). I did the thing where you cross your hand under and over your leg to grab the other hand behind your back. First time ever.

I will keep you informed of all the other good stuff that happens to me this week because I smile.

A side note- I used the Word Press spell check for this post (you know I rarely do), and “smile” is not a word it recognizes.