Hospitals and the such

It's funny how things stick in your mind.  I remember my corperate orientation day and what one particular person said.  

"Depending on your job satisfaction, you'll either walk into work with a smile on your face or you won't, but you've got to remember when the public walks into this place, it is not with a smile on their face, because you've probably met this person on one of the worst days of their life.  So greet them with a smile, help them with where they need to go because they may just need a little direction."  

It really comes down to choice.  The choice to be helpful, a choice to have a smile on your face.  A choice to be, well, happy.  It may not be easy.  It may be on a day when you have a million and one things on your mind.  Bills to pay, things to plan, what to make for supper, the blood gas you have to do on D4.   Then again that person who you see wandering the halls with those big overwhelmed eyes may just have a million and two things on their mind.  

I've talked about paying it forward before.  This notion that what you do for others, they in return will do for another, and so on and so forth.  It starts with an action.  I want to challenge that.  I'd like to think it starts with a disposition.  A choice you make.  That maybe if you choose to be happy about your day, that it'll stir a movement in other to choose to be happy about their day.  

Challenge accepted?

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