ENTHUSIASM

I have been evaluating some of the coaches down at the gym for the past weeks, just seeing how they are doing coaching and starting classes on time and how the kids are doing in the classes. In doing this I have also begun to watch the people around me more closely as well. At Wal-Mart, at the gas station, and I have come to the conclusion that there are not that many happy people out there. It's really quite sad. Take work for example. If you don't like your job, you make it look miserable and therefore all of those around you are miserable as well, and that is not fair if you coach or teach tots for example because they are normally very happy little people. Luckily they may be having so much fun that they don't even notice it! But the older they get the more in tune they are with how their coach/teacher/mentor acts. It's sad because then they are melancholy and never smile. Why not have fun with whatever you are doing? Why not smile when you want to frown or laugh when you want to yell? Who cares that it sucks to take the garbage out? Like when the guy cuts you off when you're driving in your car, well, maybe he had his pregnant wife in labor at the hospital going to deliver without him and he was trying to get to her side. Or why not let the guy behind you at the grocery store who only wants to buy a gallon of milk go in front of you and your huge cart of groceries? Why not smile more? Don't you think that it would help, even a tiny bit? We always see all those "warm and fuzzy" commercials and we think, "hey, I can help out my neighbor." Why don't we do it? I understand that we can't control everyone and maybe some are just crabby by nature, (like me at 6:30 in the morning :) but why not just try a little extra harder? I am going to. I write this because the world sometimes makes me really sad and I don't want to be sad, I want to enjoy it.