Smiles

I'm not going to post often this week--it's madness.
I still have two midterms, two papers, and a group project to finish. .  . among other things.

But I'm grateful for people who smile.

I love it when people smile and really try to do my best to smile at people whether they be friends or strangers. This not only makes me happy, but its neat watching their face light up in return.

Smiles are truly contagious.

"When you smile, smile with your face, your heart, and your liver, okie dokie?" -Eat, Pray, Love

Life!

I'm so grateful for my choice to partake in this life experience!! It is the most stressful, wonderful, awful, fantastic, hardest, fulfilling, disappointing, satisfying, easy, rough, smooth, sweet, sour, terrifying, challenging, sharpest, roundest, tender, loudest, old, new, stale, fresh, lovely, hideous, prickly, soft, clumsy, cheerful, saddest, beautiful thing I've ever done.

Seriously.

I'm so happy and thoughtful, interested, and sad all at the same time.
The human body and mind is amazing.
People are all sorts of different adjectives.
And life is sticky.
Sticky.
Like maple syrup on a beautiful Sunday dress in the middle of the Summer after eating a wonderful breakfast that ended up making your tummy hurt a little bit later which you bore with a smile because you were around loved ones whom you truly love spending time with and who make your heart ache whenever you have to leave their presence but with always a tender hug and a kiss and a promise to see them again soon even though you know soon is never soon enough but you're okay with that because soon will happen sooner or later and all you can do in the meantime is take some medicine for your aching tummy and fill your life with as much sunshine as possible because winter is never far away even though winter also has its charm, which we all know to be true despite our indifference to the cold--thank goodness for mittens and scarves.

Right?