onnanoko is fraying at the seams ~

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humansofnewyork:

I found this man on 7th Avenue in Park Slope. He was leaning heavily on his cane, looking down, wearing a grimaced face. I felt bad for him, so I smiled and waved when I walked past. His face changed completely. He lit up, smiled wide, and gave me a cheery greeting. There was nothing forced about it. He seemed like a man who went through life looking for the smallest excuses to be happy.

I walked 50 feet down the sidewalk, turned around, and walked back to him. “I want to take your photo,” I told him, “because of how big you smiled when I walked by.”

He said: “Well I saw someone smiling at me who I didn’t even know. So I thought: ‘By God! I Better do something!’”

Love everything about this

I did something similar where I waved back energetically to a guy I always see waving a sign for a mattress store that’s next to my favorite bakery/bubble tea shop. He was so surprised he actually stopped waving for a moment and then got a real big smile on his face and kept on waving. :)

(via rc-hawkeye)