SUNNY Weather!!!

Thanks SJH, i agree, summer is one of the best reasons to smile, especialy if you live in cold Europe...

Check out how my beautiful city looks like on a sunny day!

Yo Tommy,

Love your comment ;-)
This is s a great reason to smile:

12. The euro cup 2008 !!

I'm not such a fan of football, but i have to agree with that, since that just as the World cup, Olympic games and other international sports championships, whenever there's one running, there's always something to talk about in parties, at work, school...

watching a game, even if you dont really know  much about foolball (like me ;)) with other ppl at a bar, is always a good reason for a beer, or five,
and beer always makes me smile!

Cheers!
And good luck to whoever stayed in the match now!

Ginger

11. Dancing!


I liike the kind of dance you do on your own, at home, alone, while listening to a good song which just makes you FEEL GOOD!

Yeah Baby!
Shake that Ass!!

10. Waking up in the morning

Quoting Stevie:
Hi, can't put my reason for smiling on your blog as I can't see how to post? Here it is....Waking up in the morning!
Steve

Hi Stevie,

I saw your post on my user page, first of all - thanks for sharing your reason with us!
Now, you cannot add a post in someone else's blog, but you can add a comment to a post which the blog owner has posted, and i will publish your ideas ;)
(Learning that can be counted as a new reason for YOU to smile, no??)

And about the waking up in the morning - can we make it NOON? cause i cant really smile in the morning ;-)

Cheers,
Ginger

9. Miracles !

This sounds like a damn good reason to smile... ;-)

Quoting Dee:
Hello, I had a small stroke, so I practice smiling and do facial exercises everyday in the car mirror. My reason, because I made the decision to keep my baby (11 years ago) enjoy motherhoods up and dn

Surviving a stroke - and having a child seem to me like miracles. The fact that you look at the car mirror, means you can drive, which is also a kind of a miracle, after a stroke... isn't it?

All the best to you, DEE!
And enjoy your child growing up!

8. Humor

Quoting r-reecky:
Life is too difficult to take it serious! We should consider the positive sides of the events to have a hope for a better future even in the most hard times. Therefore, smile in order to reflect positive energy to the society you are living in, with all your heart and spirit!

"Laugh at life, and they'd laugh back at you"
Ginger, June 2008   ;)

I'd rather be laughing at the shitiest times of my life, than crying.
I mostely use black humer to cope with whatever i go through in life.
When my brother was sick, black humor is what saved his ass and (mental) health. When I was depressed - humor helped me laugh at what i'm going through and take it eazy. What a horrible thing it would be to take everything so hard and try to live with that... with that knowing that things are bad down here on earth..

r-eecky - you're damn right, we should take it easy and enjoy life, laugh a lot and smile.

Anybody here knows a good joke?

I like this one, from a comment by sundew2008:

7. Friends !

I could not agree more... where would i be now without my buddies??

Quoting Sundew2008:

i smile ,that's because i have a lots of good friends. and i believe that friends always help u in your lifetime whenever u are hapy or depressed . it is truely that they say ,whatever troubles you are in ,you can come to me as we are best friend.
so friendship is valueable.

6. Chocolate!

whenever depressed, hungry - or just bored - i think you all agree with me that that's a woman's best friend ;)
or enemy..?

Mostly i dont like to deal with this isuue (maybe cause i ain't got enough;)) but here's The Liberator's reason to be happy:

5. Money

Quoting the Liberator:
 I smile because I know I'm in charge of my financial destiny.

You said it right! I dont have a lot of money, i work hard, dont get supported by anyone - and i like it this way! I'm proud to be independed! I'm a healthy person who can look after himself!

Hallelujah!

Please guys, go on posting your ideas and thoughts about what makes you smile! It's helping us all! ;-)

This one is a special one which has really touched me, from a comment made by "Karen":

4. Surviving an earthquake

Quoting Karen:
 after a big earthquake,my family and i are all alive,and i even can play ICQ at now.that makes me smile

That's a damn good reason to smile! I'm glad that you and your family are OK!

where are you from? Are we talikng about the one in China?

Anyhow, I believe that you can wake up every day and be thankful for being alive, After survivng something so horrible - you know how precious life is, and you can really enjoy each moment, knowing it could've all been gone... faith... such a strange thing...

Hi folks,

As promissed - i'm adding reasons to smile from youor comments, this one is from a girl called LeniI who has commented on my first post ("1. LOVE")

Here we go:

3. Family

Quoting LeniI:
 hey ginger!a really good reason for me, to smile, is to see and to meet my FAMILY!they are persons, who have helped, listened and talked to me, since i was born! without them, my life would be empty, boring and sad!and if i meet them, listen,talk to them and if i notice that they ´re happy, it´s absolutly a reason to smile!:-)lena

I totaly agree with you, dear Lena. I believe that family should always come first. Sometimes even best friends be your family. It's all about unconditional love!

Cheers to that!

Reason number 2:

HOPE!

Even at the lowest points in life, when you feel like everything is fukked up, the only thing that keeps us going on is HOPE.

Cause you do know, that from that lowest point - it can only get better!

What comes down must come up!!

And that's a good reason to smile!

1. LOVE

How obvious..

and how obvious that i'm in love right now ;)

or else this wouldn't have been my first reason...

But honestly,

don't you think that this is the number one thing to keep us going through the rough realety?

it's like the best drug you can find!

better than anything else!

Oh yeah, and for all you out there, which are not experiancing this great thing right now..

it's only because Love is a step away from you!

This song here is dedicated to you guys!

Peace,

Ginger

Love is just a kiss away...

PS:

don't forget to leave a new reason in a comment to my post, I promiss to add all your ideas to my 100 reasons list!

xoxo