Smile

Smiling does wonderful things; it instantly uplifts any saddened soul, is a key to knowing how people are really feeling, and brings people together.
I've begun looking at people in the eye, and as a very wise someone said it would, it works; my confidence in talking to people has really blossomed and I've become a lot more happier because of it.
I see people everyday now, people who look at me in the eye and continue to until we're out of each others sight; before hand, I would look away and then quickly vert my eyes back at them to see if they were still looking, but they wouldn't be. I've also begun smiling at people because of this, just last week I was walking to school and someone who appeared to be around 18 years old was walking towards the station as I was leaving it. There was a herd of us trooping down the hill, but I caught his eye and we looked at each other until just as we were about to pass, I smiled and he smiled back. It made me happy, that two people that have no idea who each other are, notice each other and can share happiness, out of absolutely no where. Just one moment that really seems to brighten a day.
I've done it to other people, some people's faces change slightly as if they're about to go for a smile, but then they don't and then they've passed so it's too late even if they regretted not smiling at me(I bet it happens all the time:P). Some people quickly look away and ignore me, but no matter how many times I've been rejected by strangers, just for a smile, my mood is never dampened, because I went for the smile, I projected happiness onto them and it made me feel great, and hopefully them seeing me smile at them, will make them smile later on in the day.
Smiling at people makes you feel like a friendly person, even if you're typically not. It makes you feel like you're connecting with others and that you're becoming friends with the whole world. People notice you more if you smile, it's quite incredible. People are more likely to ask you for help or just feel more comfortable standing near you. You actually just feel like you can do anything when you smile, it's a tiny action that can go extremely far, you just have to push aside the stubbornness and force yourself into lifting those cheeks, you don't even have to show your teeth if you don't want. At the end of it all, you feel great and you never regret it.

There should be a world smile day, where everyone smiles at everyone they see, it would get people laughing and hopefully into laughing 'fits' and people would feel overall happier. I think we could solve the world problems if we smiled at each other, well... we would all become a lot more compassionate at least, which would be half way there.