Six Degrees of Separation
There is a theory that we are only six people away from anyone in the world, who ever you are, you are linked to anyone else by six people.
By the time your six friends have asked there six friends, and there six friends have asked six more friends, it soon adds up to a lot of people.
It works the same with being nice.
If you are nice to someone, they may be nice, and that will flow like a ripple in a pond after you have plopped in a pebble.
A smile is the facial equivalent of the pebble, most of the time, if you smile at someone they will smile back, it might, make there day, stop them from sacking someone, make them hire someone, go home and have sex with there loved ones, who knows what you could cause with just one smile.
Another good thing is that you use less energy smiling than you do frowning
So try it, practice on a few close people first, if you are not used to it.
then just smile, There is one other benefit, popular opinion always puts someone with a good smile high on the list of what the opposite sex looks for. So always smile.You never know who could be watching

I wanted to write a blog about life changing things, like voluntary simplicity or changing the way we think about the big issues in life such as, but not only, famine , global warming, or the threat of terror.
But there are many blogs and web sites doing a better job than I could do, with more intelligent arguments.
So I decided to comment on what knowledge I have managed to pick up in my life.
Be Nice, that’s the main thing I have learnt after many years on the planet.
Have respect for everything, take responsibility for your actions, strive for quality.

But be nice to people , yourself included, and everything around you.

Now I am no expert at this, but I try, I also fail , so this blog is not only about what I know, but what I learn.

Below is a poem by Max Ehrman that is a good place to start as any.




Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,and remember what peace there may be in silence

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals;and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.Especially, do not feign affection.Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations,in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be careful .Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann