Sometimes it doesn’t take much to make someone’s day

My daughter had a fantastic kindergarden teacher last year. This teacher is teaching out of town for this year but my daughter and I were able to track down her work email address. So my daughter wrote her an email saying that she missed her and that she was the best teacher she ever had (my daughter dictated, I typed). Well my daughter’s teacher wrote back today – she was excited to hear from her former student and said the note made her day.

I got to thinking about that. It doesn’t necessarily take that much to make someone’s day – paying for a friend’s meal, freely giving a compliment or encouraging word, being a listening ear.

It means looking beyond ourselves and our own problems and busy lives, which is sometimes hard to do. But I find when I do, when I stop and “see” the people around me and take the time to focus on them, not only do I “make someone’s day” but I experience joy knowing I made a person’s day just a little bit brighter.