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What makes you Smile?
There is no harm in finding reasons to smile.
Yesterday I got to see a whole slate of new programming coming from Disney+.
The vast majority is Star Wars shows. And I was, upon seeing this, 7 years old all over again.
Recent episodes of The Mandalorian have been utterly awesome — and yes, I recognize if you’re are not a big geeky Star Wars fan like me some of this may have been lost on you. But between a live-action Ahsoka Tano and the return of Boba Fett — I am having a fangasm.
I make no apology for my extreme geekiness. As my wife said when we first began to date, “You are such a geek!” Guilty as charged. She had never met someone so out of the geek closet as I am.
But then, most of my friends are similar to me. The amount of squeeing on Facebook last night following the announcements was epic among us.
It made me smile. Thinking about it today, still smiling.
We need more things that make us smile. Because life is too short to be miserable as often as we are.
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