Make Estonians smile

Estonians don’t smile in a public place, especially for strangers. That's a wide-spread understanding. To make your life more interesting - and to improve your surroundings - do some experiments to challenge this notion.

If you have a car, it’s easy. Every time you stop behind the traffic light, look at your right and smile the person who has stopped next to you. If you think that smiling might be perceived as too agressive, just look optimistic. And a miracle will happen! People will lighten up! Yes, it’s true, Estonians will start to smile in the public place and they actually do make a human connection with you. Yesterday I managed to make the world a better place for one old man, who was probably stunned because he was noticed by a young girl. But what a beautiful smile he had!

Another option for car-users is to go to a car-wash. I’m not sure what actually happened today, but an Estonian guy let me pass him in the queue and looked as if he had met a old friend then doing it. All I did was I stepped outside of the car and was thinking about some good stuff, he thought I was smiling to him and suddenly I was very close to find out, how Estonians get hooked up in the super-markets, post-offices or other random places with very limited time to connect. I can’t tell how the smiling-thing would have worked on a woman, but positive impressions shared with your co-Estonians can really have interesting consequences.

But anyway if you don’t have a car, you still can make some nice experiments. Go to a super-market and act polite. Between the food-shells there isn’t much room, so when someone comes with a big food-cart, step politely aside, smile and let the person pass. You will be stunned about the effect! Today a woman was actually looking confused when I gave her enough room to act and didn’t try to crab things to be the first. The key here is to pay attention, not to rush around, focused on your target food-article, but to notice people around you and give them the little piece of polite attention they need. It’s the most rewarding experimenting I’ve recently tried.

This is now a bit off-topic, but supermarkets are my favourite places, when I’m in the mood of observing people. Quite often there are couples, who have obviously “lost it”. You can just feel the lack of energy in their presence, they look tired and joyless, their children look as if they didn’t belong there. I wonder if normal people turn to energy-vampires because they just don’t fit together or they have too big egos? I think mainly the problems are about ego-fight, so the question is – should it be possible to be together with anyone and there’s no such things as “perfect match” and “solemate”? So you can see how deep philosophical places are actually supermarkets. I’ve said recently, that Maksimarket is the next big thing – I might have been right!:)

Visit supermarkets with eyes wide open and become human-soul expert...or just use the chance to create more positive vibrations in the world.