Associations...

I find it fascinating how a smell or a sound can bring you right back to somewhere or bring back a memory. A perfume of someone you like, or something that brings you back to another country you went to some years ago. The funny thing is that it just happens automatically, and sometimes you don't really know why it does that.
But it's nice, if you have good associations with the memory, to think back and remember what happened, the atmosphere or the setting.

The effects of a smile...

A smile is one of the easiest things we can do. But we might not think about the effects of one. I know that when I'm down myself and having a bad day, is sick and not feeling all that good, someone showing me a simple smile and in some way gives me a reason to smile, makes me feel so much better.
Knowing this I try to meet the patients I meet, my friends, and even just random people on the street, with a cheerful attitude, a simple smile. That might just
make someones day.