Are you angry?
Just a minute.....I need a smile here!
Did you lose your smile?
When someone makes you angry, it can steal your smile. Your laughter. Your JOY. And more often than not, the other person doesn’t even know they made you angry. So you walk around angry, maybe even fuming about the issue. Meanwhile, the other person is going along just fine. Oblivious. And THAT’S GOOD!
Now before you get angry at ME, let me shed some light on this anger thing. You see, we (that means you AND me) spend a good deal of our lives wasting time being angry at someone, for something, that usually doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Face it-when was the last time you got angry over something that mattered over the long haul, meaning, did it still matter after five years? Or even ten or twenty years? NOPE. But at the time, it seemed super important. So much so, that maybe you and the other person exchanged unpleasant words. And after you both cooled down, you were sorry for how you handled it. You realized it wasn’t that big of a deal after all.
Good for you! That’s a sign of maturity, of wisdom, of smarts.
Smart people know it’s vitally important to apologize and mend relationships, but also that it’s important to forgive. WHY? Because giving forgiveness frees you to be able to smile again. Lose the anger. Give forgiveness to them, and to you.
And THAT’S worth smiling about.