October 21,2010

          (This actually happened on Tuesday, just for the record.)

Well I was sitting in class, (voice master class) and a girl got up to sing. She was the last one to sing.....I think..... Well anyway, I am in the process of making it a habit to smile throughout the whole time someone is singing. It is really hard to sing while no one looks like they are enjoying what they are hearing, even if they do give nice comments at the end. (to me it feels like: Uh huh, yeah, your lying. I didn't see your smile while I was singing. You looked like you were bored while I sang.) So, I make sure I am smiling the whole time that someone is singing. Each time someone is singing though, I tend to drop my smile when they crack or hit a wrong note. I am trying really hard not to do that. So, I was thinking, as I was smiling, "No one ever notices that I am smiling. It is hard to smile the whole entire time. I want to stop." but then I think "No, I can't do that. What if someone looks over at me once I stop smiling while they are singing? It does help to have a happy friendly face listening" So that was the end of that "inside" conversation. At the end of the class as I was walking out, the last girl to sing came up to me, and she said to me, " I saw you smiling at me. Whenever I looked at you, you were always smiling back at me! It was so nice. Your smile was the only reason that I kept going." and she gave me a hug. :) That was a really interesting experience, I was sure that no one noticed. It made me really happy that she had noticed. I am always going to smile while I am listening to someone play an instrument/act/sing/etc... because you never know what a simple smile can do. :)