Don't Forget To Smile...

Something lovely happened the other day. Let me explain...

With it being summer and all I have started to become a tiny bit obsessed with people with freckles (as you do). Seeing someone's skin dotted with freckles makes me think they have been kissed a million times over by little tiny sparks from the sun. My freckles have started to show up a bit more due to the recent heat wave in London so naturally I trotted downstairs the other day to tell my mum how I thought "my face looks better with a few freckles" and instead of brushing me and my fairy like thoughts off her eyes simply flickered over my face and she told me, "Your face just looks so much better with a smile on it." Caught up in the moment I skipped off upstairs and it wasn't until later in the evening that I really thought about what she had said.

Smiling is one of the most underrated actions I can think of. In this day and age it is so easy to take our lives for granted, and even easier to moan about the more insignificant things in life such as "The wifi is too slow" or "my eyebrows are uneven!" Very rarely do we take the time out of our day to sit back and think, what is good about today? It's funny how something as simple as that can let a smile creep across your face and make it as beautiful as it should be 24 hours a day.

I smile so much these days and it's simply because I am so unbelievably grateful to be alive and in a better place than I was a few months ago. As cliche as that may sound to many, I have lost so many loved ones to illnesses that I am just happy and appreciative that I am alive and well. Smiling has helped me feel more like me throughout the past few weeks and I think if everyone took 2 minutes out everyday to list a few little things that make us happy we would see a lot more smiles, so here is mine...

1. To be blessed with life.
2. Having parents I can laugh with.
3. Being able to look at old photographs and be filled with memories that were never mine to begin with. Which reminds me, I must start printing my pictures.
4. The invention of fairy lights.

I'd love to know what little things make you smile? *PS, eyebrows are sisters, not twins!