Are you pickin' up what I'm puttin' down????

I don't know if it's in or if it's out, but I'm really diggin' giving people the thumbs up. Just to be clear I'm not just talking about peeps in my circle. I am talking about complete and utter strangers.

I saw a really cute older couple driving a new VW bug last week and when we stopped at the light, I looked over at them, smiled and gave them a thumbs up. The older woman in the passenger seat smiled waved back at me and gave me a thumbs up right back. It felt good.

Later that same day, I was on my way to pick up Keri from work and I was stopped at a light and I glanced over at the bus stop. There sat a 30's something dude with a curled up waxed mustache. I smiled at him and gave him a thumbs up. He had both of his hands in his front jeans pockets sitting on the bench and he smiled a shy smile and gave me a thumbs up right back.

It is that easy to make some one's day. Did these people really have their day made by a stranger giving them a thumbs up for reasons they have no way of knowing? I, like them, have no way of knowing, but what I do know is that it created happiness in me. I am the someone who had their day made and I did it all by myself. Well, not completely, because they were involved right? BUT I bet you a thumbs up, if you looked at yourself in the mirror and gave yourself a genuine thumb's up you would make your own day. What the hell!!! Get generous and give yourself two thumbs up!

Create good feelings in yourself and then share yourself with the world. I'm totally diggin' it.