THE NEED TO SMILE
Ordinary day. Ordinary town. Ordinary people. I had to get away from this routine life. Everything in my life was great. Great family. Great mates. Great life. Everything was just great. And I hated it.
Ever since I moved to this town I have been bored. Everything and everyone in this town was too predictable. I'd lived here for 23 years and I never had a problem. That's the bad thing. I needed some excitement in my life. I needed to find a new place. A new town where I could do exciting things, meet exciting people and⦠I stopped myself at that point. I figured there was no point thinking about things that weren't possible. 'Why think about dreams that could not be achieved,' I thought to myself. 'Even if I could, where would I go?' I pondered. Enough thinking. I sat down and switched on the T.V.
Man thinking on a train journey.
This is a "thought bubble". It is an illustration ...
Pondering the meaning of life, for sure.All the normal channels. All the normal programs. Not much different to the story of my life. Then, as I was channel surfing, a new advertisement caught my eye. Everything seemed fun and amusing in the ad. Everyone was smiling⦠I never smile. Well not truthfully anyway. I smile when I see Mrs. Rogers in the morning, but that's not a real smile. A real smile is when you feel something, when you see something. That will never happen in this town. That's when I felt it. I felt the sudden urge to go. A gut feeling telling me that this was the time. The time to start a new life. It was time to smile. The thought of this almost brought a smirk to my face but not enough to satisfy me. I grabbed the car keys, headed for the door and the next thing I...