Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The smile that makes the difference

Every morning I take the subway to go to work. At the station where I change line there is a man collecting newspapers. I already mentioned that in China you see a lot of people collecting recyclables to bring them back to a waste center (they get some money for that).
So this man stands on the platform every morning and collects the free newspapers from the commuters. Every morning I give him the China Daily or free magazine I've been reading. When I do that he thanks me and smiles at me. I noticed he only smiles at me, not to the other Chinese people, and I smile back. That's the first smile of the day which makes my morning.

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