Gingers have no soul…so they say. I am currently a ginger myself thanks to some deceiving hair color from Sally’s. It’s ok, it can be fun to change things up, especially knowing you can easily change back.

Change is a crazy thing, it is terrifying and exciting and exhilarating. The change I want to talk about today is the change in how we view things. Nothing specifically has changed as far as the universe is involved, but one moment, something may click in your head, completely changing your perspective…or it may be a concerted effort on your own part to view something differently.

I think for me personally the moment I have a perspective change about a person (typically for the better) is when I hear their “real” laugh. We all have several variations of our laughter; polite laughter, fake laughter, “I don’t get the joke but I’ll play along” laughter, church laughter, drunk laughter, and the best of all: that hysterical REAL laughter where you can’t even hold back, you look like a total dork, red in the face, pain in the sides from laughing. This is the laughter that we reserve for those we trust and truly “let in”, because face it…once you accidentally spit in someones face from out of control laughing, you can never turn back. When someone in my life shows me their REAL laugh, my heart, like the Grinch’s, grows instantly. The connection is built and the perspective is changed.

Today, I cherish the value of laughter and the ability to turn someone’s day around with just a smile or a joke. Day 3, I face you with a smile and probably a really cheesy joke (or ten).