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by dj_ultima_the_great » Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:39 am
Making somebody's day. Sometimes they outright tell me when I've done it, and sometimes you can just tell from the look on their faces.
The example I'm thinking of is when I was in Barnes & Noble yesterday, and I saw a woman in her twenties who was just the perfect image of summer. She had a beautiful sun dress, a matching little flower in her hair, and wedge sandals, all in summer colors. She could have stepped out of an ad in a fashion magazine. So, as I was perusing the same section as her, I mentioned that she looked absolutely adorable in her outfit, and she just lit up. She excitedly told me how she had gotten everything for cheap at Wal-mart, and then she jokingly asked if she could take me home so that I could repeatedly tell her she looked cute all the time. I said that my friends probably wouldn't be too happy about me being kidnapped, and she laughed and thanked me again for the compliment, and then I waved goodbye and that was the end of it.
Tiny moments like that are amazing to me, because they leave a surprising impact on people. It's a moment of pure joy when you realize, "Oh my God, somebody noticed me, and they loved me!" and it boosts your mood for the rest of the day. Folks get so isolated going about their business. Every once in a while, I like to just step into someone's space and give them a pleasant surprise.
Sometimes it backfires with a particularly paranoid individual, but most just light up like she did - and those are the moments that make me smile too.