As a personal kick in the pants and to get myself writing here again, I’ve decided to take up the Reverb10 challenge – to respond, every day in December, to a prompt that help me reflect on 2010 and make 2011 everything 2010 wasn’t. Oh, was that giving too much away?
December 8: Beautifully different
Think about what makes you different and what you do that lights people up. Reflect on all the things that make you different — you’ll find they’re what make you beautiful.
Reflect and Manifest
I’m different in all kinds of ways, as everyone is. But the thing that lights people up is this: I smile.
I smile a lot, and at pretty much everyone I know or interact with. (Full disclosure: I’m not so much for smiling at perfect strangers on the street without some kind of reason. Hey, I’m an introvert!) And this means they smile back. And most of the time, we both feel better.
Sometimes I can fall into the emotional / mental trap of thinking, hey, this person doesn’t actually like me, they just like that I smile at them. And while it’s true that they don’t have a very deep engagement with me, smiling is me.
On the few occasions I get anxious or annoyed by my wrinkles, I tell myself that they tell the world two things: that I smile, and that I’m inquisitive. These are not bad things to be signaling to the world.
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What about you? How would you respond to this prompt in your own life?