This is actually a picture that I took on my iPhone. I amazes me how good of pictures that dinkey little camera lens can take sometimes. I took this on my way to meet my good friend Elizabeth at Panera for her lunch break. I actually took it for another photo challenge that I am doing for a camera app on my phone called Instagram which is sort of like a massive picture blog on your phone. There is a different challenge for each day and today's was "something that makes you smile". It was really fun because I was very contentious all morning of every thing that made me grin and asking myself if it was photo worthy. The one thing that really seemed to make my heart smile was this moment when I was in my car driving to meet one of my best friends on an absolutely gorgeous day (57 in January.. not normal) and the most perfect song popped on the radio. Don't you love when that happens?! I was grinning from ear to ear during the entire song as I drove down the road singing and blasting the song as loud as it would go. I was so content. The thing is, I don't think I would have enjoyed this moment the same way if I hadn't been looking for reasons to smile. Did you know that just by smiling you become happier? You could be in the worst mood ever but if you turn your frown upside down just for a few seconds you can actually feel better! I love that. This made me realize that I need to start looking for reasons to smile more in my life. There are so many moments every day that I don't even recognize how happy I am. I don't want to spend my life looking back and thinking "wow, I was so much happier than I realized". I want to recognize my happiness in the moment. So resolution #6: find as many things as I can that make me smile every day.
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