Greetings...

Since I'm trying to lose weight, I started to exercise more.  The weather was absolutely gorgeous today, so I decided to walk around Christchurch Park, here in Ipswich.

During my walk, I approached two elderly ladies walking on the path towards me.  For reasons unknown to me, as I was passing them, I smiled and greeted them, "Good afternoon, ladies."  The both looked surprised, smiled and returned the greeting back to me.  As I was walking away from them, I heard one lady say to the other, "People just don't greet each other like they used to do.  That was very pleasant."

You know, she's right.  People don't greet each other any more.  Why is that, do you think?  How hard is it to acknowledge someone and say "good morning," or "good evening?"   The exchange I had with the two ladies lasted probably a total of 10 seconds, but I bet the memory of it will probably last much longer than that.

So let's take a few seconds of our day, acknowledge someone and greet them.