Okay, I have made a decision. For the next month, I am going to send love out into the universe. Every. Single. Day.
I challenge myself to do something every day (CONSCIOUSLY!) to make someone else feel good. Things that I already do for people don't count. I have to actually think about it and do something nice for someone. And they have to know that someone made an effort. They don't necessarily have to know who.
The reason I came to this idea is that as I've mentioned before, recently I've been going through a very stressful time in my life. And I don't see much of an end in sight. So I have to do something that really makes me feel good instead of always just trying to get through the day. (I do not in any way mean to imply that I don't have some really wonderful things in my life, or that I'm not happy or anything like that, it's just a few things that are ongoing suck up all my attention.) I've been thinking for awhile about how good I feel when I do something nice for the person behind me in line. Sometimes I pay the toll on the highway for the person behind me or I pay for the order of the person behind me when I'm getting coffee at Dunkin' Donuts. These are tiny things as far as money goes--at most a couple of dollars--but I giggle all day after I've done it.
The cashier usually smiles and makes a nice comment, and I imagine she thinks about it and does something nice too. Then those two people who have had something nice done for them do something nice for two other people. Kind of like that old shampoo (was it Breck?) commercial.
One time my daughter asked me if anyone had ever done that for me, and I thought about it and no one ever has. But I don't care. That would be nice, but I probably wouldn't giggle about it all day.
So I am going to see if doing nice things for others really does make me happier than having other people do nice things for me. Will definitely post each day what happens.
I start tomorrow...
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