care-full.

How can you be the best that you can be? Someone that other's look up to. Someone that gets smiles wherever they go. 

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a good human being; a good citizen, a loyal friend, a great coworker, a supporting sister, a loving daughter. I want to be someone that's respected. Someone that radiates sunshine wherever I go. Someone that others want to be around.

So how can this be achieved? 

I think it starts by being optimistic with life. Optimism creates happiness, and happiness shines from within. Others notice when you're happy. So it begins there.

But almost anyone can be happy if they choose to be. NOT everyone can be kind and loving, or else they do not choose to be that way.

So I'm making a conscious decision. I'm going to do my best to think of others. To keep their best interests in mind. I like making people happy. Knowing that somehow I brightened their day. And brightening someone else's usually brightens my own. But that's not the intention! Don't get the wrong impression. I want to be influential in people's lives. I want them to know that I care, that someone cares.

We're meant to support and encourage each other. So let's actually do it!