Lightness

What’s the first impression you want to give people?

Interesting prompt question. What do I want people to remember about me when they walk away from a first meeting? Hmmm. Let’s see.

I like when I walk away from an encounter with another and think :that was fun! So maybe I would like to leave an impression of lightness. I want to leave the other feeling a comfortable and happy energy.

I just spent an afternoon and evening with four of my grandkids. All of them have their own way of leaving me feeling like that. Later I had some moments with my daughter in laws and son. (we were helping decorate some birthday cookies and cup cakes). In separate conversations we ended up laughing so hard we could hardly get words out.( it may have had to do with too much sugar and the late hour) but laughter and lightness leaves me walking away thinking :well that was fun!

It’s not always laughter. Two days ago my son was talking to me about AI. He had a little experiment in which he interviewed me using questions compiled by AI around the topic of my book and why I wrote it. When he mentioned that it would be recorded, I was less interested, but it turned into an interesting conversation and we were both like hey, that was fun!

My oldest grand daughter loves trivia. She likes being tested on it. She stops me every so often and says I could do this for hours so if you get bored we can stop. I laugh and say I love asking her questions that I can’t even answer! In between chatting with the group we keep up the questions. Down the elevator to the car, back to the game room, we keep the questions going (I’m reading them off an app.)

That was fun!

So that’s my answer. Im not a comedian, but I love laughter, I love light, I love some fun thinking conversation. I genuinely want others to walk away feeling a tiny bit (or much) happier. Seen, heard, and part of the fun!