Your day just got better!

I was sitting in class today and a student came in and asked me"How are you, Mrs. Murphy?"  I responded my normal, "Good", or "Pretty good" and he smiled at me and hesitated a moment and then said, "Well...your day just got better...because I'm here now!"
I love it!
  It makes me smile now and it made me smile when he said it!
How I wish that we all could have that attitude about ourselves and life.  I have witnessed many people who don't believe there is anything about themselves that makes people happy or glad to be alive.  Most of us are convinced that there is nothing in them that would make a difference to anyone.
That student made my day!  I want to be as positive as he is and make a difference in others lives.  Not only did he greet me...he kept singing songs inserting my name in them. He had me giggling throughout class.

I saw a video clip about a teacher who gave out 3 blue ribbons to people who had made a difference in her life.  She made a point of telling each one why they made a difference, in turn they were to pass it on to 2 other people and tell them why.  One of them was a guy's boss who most of his employees thought of as grumpy...only this time someone told him he had made a difference in his life.  Then that guy went home and sat his teen age son down and told him he knew he had focused lately on the things he hadn't been doing but that he wanted to let him know that he was really proud of him and that he had made a big difference in his life.  The teen ager started crying.  He told his dad that he had planned to take his own life that evening...because he didn't feel like he was worth anything to anyone...he told his dad that he had changed his mind.
Wow, You never know what one little bit of kindness will do for someone. It could change their lives.
I hope all of you feel so good about yourselves that you can walk up to someone and tell them, your day just got better...and mean it.  Thanks to all of you.  Your lives make a difference in my life!  And my day just got better because you are in it.