“It’s always nice when…
Posted by deneb7 on February 27, 2009
… someone puts a smile on your face.”
Is it odd that I always associate that sentence with random strangers?
I can certainly see it applied to friends making you smile, but when I read that, my first thought is of encounters with random strangers.
Does that mean my friends don’t make me smile, or that I’m already smiling all the time so they don’t have to? I can’t always be smiling, can I?
Or maybe it’s because it’s unexpected from a stranger so I remember it better?
What do you think of when you read that?
J said
“It’s always nice when…
… someone puts a smile on your face.”
1. I think it’s because of that “someone” gives a slight indication of stranger-ness
2. It’s because of a story I read in Chicken soup for Soul. A man smiles at those he passes by…I can’t remember well now, but there’s such a story in Chick Soup for Soul when I read it during my senior year in high school.
3. the part “puts a smile on your face” As soon as I understand the sentence I also at the same time feel a mental image that someone “puts” a “smile (maybe made of paper or like a little stuff animal except it’s in the shape of a smiling lips) on…
deneb7 said
haha hmm..
1. I don’t really understand what you mean here
3. well it could also be phrased as “someone makes you smile”.. does that help? :p