Tweaker of Attitudes

I am sure, like me, you must get up some mornings feeling somewhat upside down. Then at some point during the day, hopefully early on, someone says or does something which sparks some sense into you and tweaks your attitude just enough to set you right. Thankfully so or else we could be stuck in that wasteful mode longer than we should. Well, I have encountered such a tweaker of attitudes. You see, as I make my way up the parking ramp every morning, right after the valet floor, there stands an individual of older age greeting tenants as we pass him by, smiling, pointing and waving at us. The first day I passed him by and witnessed this cheerful animation directed at me I thought he had confused me with someone he knew, but then the next day he waved and smiled just as enthusiastically as the day before. And the same each time after that. I am delighted at what this humble and humorous gesture of his does to me — it makes me break into a smile every single time. Some days I am able to sport that smile for quite a while, other days it is erased sooner, but no matter, it’s a magical moment I tell you. I wish I could do that for others, I wish I could be another’s magical moment like that. Priceless.

The thing to take away here is that I could be. I could be that bearer of delight, that tweaker of attitudes, to someone else. Hmmm…what a concept.