SMILE!!!!

Heres another poem I wanted to share with you:

SMILE :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

SMILING IS AN INFECTION
YOU CAN CATCH IT LIKE THE 'FLU'
WHEN SOMEONE SMILED AT ME TODAY
I STARTED SMILING TOO.

I PASSED AROUND THE CORNER
THEN SOMEONE SAW MY GRIN
AND, WHEN HE SMILED, I REALISED
I'D PASSED IT ON TO HIM

I THOUGHT ABOUT MY SMILE
AND REALISED ITS' WORTH
A SINGLE SMILE JUST LIKE MINE
COULD TRAVEL ROUND THE EARTH

SO, IF YOU SEE A SMILE BEGIN,
DON'T LEAVE IT UNDETECTED,
LET'S START AN EPIDEMIC
AND GET THE WORLD INFECTED

It always makes me smile (well almost always)

So keep smiling everyone
Hopeful
x x x

All my friends say I am the smile on their bad days!!!!! I have had to drag myself through the last week and at some points really didn't think I was going to make it but as my other poem says 'don't quit' and I didn't and I am now sat here with a smile on my face!!!!!! :D :D

Just goes to show that the black cloud that keeps hanging over me does go away from time to time!!

If I am managing to smile and can make one other person smile with me then I know I am not doing a bad job

Keep the smiles showing :) :) :)

Hopeful

Aw that poem is nice!! Funnily enough I relate to this 'everyone seeing me as a smiler conundrum' too! Maybe we beam extra when we are not SAD :lol:
I have a photo of me in the lounge grinning from ear to ear - it is probably vile, but I like looking at it as it reminds me that I can actually be happy. It also makes me feel a bit as if I am two different people though, and I have to stop myself from saying to hubby: "That woman in the photo - it is me isn't it?"

Went back to the doc today for the old monthly dose of Lustral. I mentioned that I had a new lightbox which was working well and she asked me where I got it (I thought: "Great my doc is obviously well clued up about lightbox companies (not)." And to really make me reassured that her level of knowledge of SAD is second to none, I thought I'd try her with another query (I'm sneaky like that.) I said: " I have found this great online forum and the other poeple get lots of pains and aches like me." "Really?" she retorted, genuinely surprised to learn that the aches are common symptoms. She is awfully nice and is taking care not to take me off medication too soon. She says watch Dec and Jan as they are the worst months so she knows something, but I would say there are alarming gaps in her knowledge...

As usual my mum was a real support when I told her that the doc didn't know much about SAD. She said: "Well she probably doesn't know about that sort of thing." She may just as well have said: "Come off it Dawn, there is no such thing as this SAD/depression lark - just snap out of it and all the others like you are just malingerers too." Not sure she'd feel pleased if I was as offhand about her gallstones...