Secret Message #5: A Smile Is Just a Frown Turned Upside Down
Just because I’m hitting lemons doesn’t mean they’ve stopped hitting me… but here’s the big news: I will spend the weekend repeating history, and I absolutely refuse to let it get me down because (1) for the past three months I’ve lived like I was Anne Frank herself and (2) it’s become really uncomfortable walking on eggshells around the keeper of the nine circles. I’m light on my feet and very quiet, so quiet I’ve startled people when they suddenly realize I’ve entered a room; I don’t even play music or move around a whole lot after a long day at work. So, how the hell do my footsteps knock pictures off of someone else’s wall?
I know. It’s my magnetic personality.
But ohhh, the havoc this has wreaked in my small but already chaotic world. I’ve learned time and time again that life is never simple; it only gets more and more complicated with each year. I’ve been looking forward to future days full of idyll and halcyon ways, but each time Murphy visits me, I find myself turning nostalgic instead. Those happy times, I realize, happened yesterday when I was dreaming of today. I simply failed to see it for what it was and never thought to appreciate it.
So here I am, appreciating today.
Why? Because of these things: (1) however stupid the employees at the local phone company are, even if it takes me the whole day to rectify their mistakes, at least I have my phone line working again; (2) however much I hate packing and unpacking, even after only three months, at least I have this opportunity to whittle down my stuff again; and (3) however sick my loved ones are, so long as they’re alive, at least they aren’t already worse and gone from my life forever.
You see? It isn’t a rose bush with thorns. It’s a thorn bush with roses, and aren’t the roses a lovely surprise?
[You buying this crap yet?]
Seriously, though. Just take my secret message this month to heart and spread it around. I think we all need it every now and then. I have every reason to smile, so if you need one, let me know; I’ll share some with you.
Here are a few to start you off:
- Smile and feel ten years younger; worry and get grey hair.
– Chinese proverb - A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.
– Mason Cooley - A fair lady s smile is worth more than a thousand ounces of gold.
– Chinese proverb - Better to smile on all that smile, and show
There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow.
– William Butler Yeats - Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man? a world without a sun.
– Thomas Campbell - The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
– Jean De La Bruyère
6 thoughts on “Secret Message #5: A Smile Is Just a Frown Turned Upside Down”
Smile April. I hope you didn’t see my recent post. I have no room to complain. I have also turned to my nostalgia, and see that being idealistic has landed me where I am today. I need to get my sorry butt back to the drawing board.
Working on remembering how to smile here, so thanks, April. Here’s to better days! Just breathe…
Thanks for the smiley. 🙂
I’m not really sure what else to say.
Okay, cliches it is…
Hang in there. It’ll all be okay. 😉
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Smiling, it’s contagious
April thinks the employees at the local phone company are stupid – she should hear some of the comments made by customers.
My computer turned blue? (Perhaps the MicroSoft BSOD – perhaps not.) “Can you reset my password?” (“I say: Perhaps, which one? She says, “Oh it was ‘letmein’, but I don’t know what is is now.” “The elevator dropped a few inches when I came in this morning, who do I tell?” And of course, my personal favorite: “Is the Internet down?” (Here, I recommend they make use of this handy link in case they want to be prepared.)
LOL… well, Warren, these days I only call the service companies when I need to make a change to my account. In the case of the local phone company, I told them to start service at one place at a certain date and stop service at another place at another date. Then I repeated what I said; I had the call taker repeat what I said; then when I got off the phone, I found out later that she flubbed and shut off my service that moment anyway (two days early, in other words), and it took the whole day of me calling them and complaining, on a day where I was freakily busy at work with a mile-high of stuff to do, to simply get the phone line back on again. All of this, while expecting calls from movers and from doctors at the ER. Pissed me off!
But hey… I had every reason to smile. 😉
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