Week 1- The Weekly Smile

Okay, so today I was scrolling through daily posts for inspiration; I am about half way through my month of daily posts (31 day blogging challenge) and if I am being honest I am LOVING the outlet of daily posts, even though some have been quite negative. I enjoy the structure of having something to think about to start my day off and working around it too, I worry if I just went freestyle and blogged daily it would read more like a confused and often dramatic diary. I also think I would fall back on an old “it’s all fine” trick of manipulating what I put out for the world based on how I think it would be perceived rather than just a fairly honest reflection on the day…but I digress. So, I was looking through daily blog posts and up pops #TheWeeklySmile.

Well, I love a smile I don’t know many people that don’t. More muscles to frown and all that 😉 so I read on. It basically this really cool idea set up by a guy called Trent P McDonald as a reaction to a friend’s facebook post about negativity and negative people. Of posting a weekly image/video/blog/any other kind of medium about a smile you have had, this could be the smallest smile (my niece telling me she loved me sooooooo much and giving me a big cuddle before I went back to work this afternoon) or a bloody huge smile (the feeling of picking up my FdA at my first graduation) but it just has to be a smile. The hope is that this rolls out and that people all over the world are posting weekly smiles on their social media and blogs and that these smiles get seen by people who don’t know and the post brings a little light to their day. As well as their own post, Trent provides a weekly link ‘linky’ that people can add their smiles too, this is pretty cool way of connecting with the rest of the community and if you are struggling to find a smile for the week a pretty good way to see some of the positivity that exists in the world.

The original post gives the ‘rules’ a term by his own definition is loosely applied, but basically to remind people positivity only counts if it’s not coming at the cost of someone else’s happiness, a.k.a Don’t be a jerk.

I am totally in love with this idea, and can not wait to become an active participant. I will aim to link each week’s smile below, starting with my first smile; stumbling across this fantastic little community and reading some of the previous smiles from both Trent’s list and the smiles linked to his weeks.

My Smiles (if you wanna see these as a scroll select the drop down from the menu above):
Week 1 – The Smiles

 

 

(I’ve stolen the artwork from the original posts for this one, the top one I can see is signed by Trent so I would assume the credit is as linked back to him, the second I couldn’t see who to credit. But Trent if you are reading this and you are unhappy with either being used please let me know and I will remove them 🙂 )