Thing To Be Today: cheerful.

I know the fashion is for us all to wallow importantly in our own sorrows, and I also know that the sight of ourselves battling through our problems makes us feel like heroes.

On the other hand, bestowing a smile and a cheerful greeting on a friend, or a stranger, makes us just a little bit of a hero to someone else.

And, you know something? That might be worth even more.


image by Puffin 

Thing To Be Today: cheerful. This word appeared in English in the 1200s, when it meant a welcoming face. It comes from the French chere, from the Latin cara, face, and before that from the Greek kara, head.