The world needs more smiles

Sometimes I wonder if the world would be a happier place if everyone went out of their way to do at least one nice thing per day. Today, I was on the bus, and something got in my eye, so I was squinting out the window trying to get whatever it was out of my eye. This little kid miscontrued my facial expression as a mug and mouthed fuck you bitch to me. I was apalled because the kid looked so innocent, yet he so readily used vulger language at a stranger. If the kid randomly smiled at me instead, I think I would have felt all warm and fuzzy inside, and my day would have been just a little better.

My friend Lena told me that it's one of her life goals to promote acceptance, and I felt really sort of amazingly optimistic about the future after she told me that. I mean, I'm so damn pessimistic all the time, but just hearing one of her genuine life goals gave me some kind of hope for the future. Lena is going to do great things in the future, so I'm looking forward to the future just knowing that I know she will make a difference.

Rereading the above, I feel like I would look back at this post and think that I'm lying to myself. When I first started this post earlier in the day, I honestly felt that all the world really needs is altruism. After waking up from a really unpleasant nap, I don't feel that way anymore. I need to alter my pessimistic perspective on life.