"Salutations to each of you. My name is High-Society. I am pleased to make your acquaintance."

"I am quite new to this place and do not fully understand it yet. As i listen here in the Streets, i feel i am learning more and more each day."

High Society continued. "What i do see though is a lot of personality. I see an amount of insight and a lot of intriguing folks here. So, with that said, i want to ask a question." 

"It can be in whatever context you wish, there is no right or wrong answer." He stated, with a smile

"It may not make sense, until I've asked all i wish to in the coming days, but, learning does take time, after all. So, Here It Is..."

What Puts a Smile on Your Face?

Is there a particular event, or perhaps a particular topic that makes your whole face just light up? Something that, whatever it is, makes you smile, and makes you happy whenever you encounter it.

I believe that happiness and passion walk hand in hand. Both require each other. Following what makes you truly happy is a wonderful way to figuring out what you were put here for. Think about something that you do or that perhaps you used to do that brings total peace to you when you do it.

Sullivan grinned as he listened to HS speak. Their question was intriguing and it made Sully step up, crossing his arms over his chest and cocking his head to the side just slightly.

"I'd have to say that intelligence, and creativity, are the things that make me happiest. The two together are quite a deadly combination and they are what makes this world of ours spin."

He smirked, his head lolling to the other side. "Also, I can't get away from science. Innovators of the world make me happy to read about. All the new inventions! Why, it's an amazing time to be alive!"

He chuckled and bowed his head, returning to the crowd behind him. As he vanished he yelled back, "Wouldn't you agree?"

Tony listens from the alley and steps out once he hears the question being posed to the streets. "What makes you smile?". Pausing just for a moment to light a cigarette before speaking...

I think the thing that makes me smile most in this thing of ours is seeing growth across the nation. The prosperity of this thing of ours no matter how much the government would like to see us fail. Besides that I enjoy the company of good friends whether it be having a chat or grabbing a drink at the HQ or a local establishment. 

Tony finishes his statement and flashes a smile before making his way back down the alley where he previously stood in the shadows.

As Shaw was on his hustle, just bebopin and scottin, he pauses for a crowed has formed. He hears someone talking about what makes them smile. Thinking to himself as he post up on a stoop and lights his blunt. Takes a Long drag and exhales.

"Yo.,  For me I would say keeping it Koolaid makes me smile"

Shaw reaches in a sack and passes out koolaid samiches to everyone. 

Listening on, he heard an interesting array of things that make people happy. He laughed at some, raised a brow at others, but in the end, to each his or her own he thought. Whatever Makes You Happy.

"SullivanBlack..." he started. "...Those are definitely wonderful things. I too endeavor to find avenues such as these to inspire me and bring happiness in life. All the innovations we've seen from this world in the last 50 years alone, is enough to Marvel at. Imagine what the next fifty may yet bring, if the tides are right and the minds mold just so!"

Hearing @ToniCastelli discuss the notion intrigued High Society as well

"The growth we see is no small thing, a similar notion to which i said to Sulli a bit ago." "But we cant put a price on good friends and fine company. There's always enough there to make me smile on a good gab about."

"And as Lampshaw said..." High Society continued "Sometimes you just have to keep it 'Koolaid'..."

"Just let life happen and see where she takes you. "


 

What puts a smile on my face?

"Hmm, good question." Nefer thought to herself.

"Ok. I think there's a good number of ways that I could answer this, but let's say that the best are the surprises that come along in your life. Like when you find an old friend after a long time of having no contact with them, or when you finally get done with that goal or wish, or even get up enough courage to start that plan you've been wanting to do for years, or maybe even a trip, or a new job opportunity, etc;

The important part is to try and find the good point about everything and be positive so that you'll have more opportunities to put a smile on your face, instead of being in a grumpy mood."

Nautilus grabs a chair and joins the crowd, asking to borrow the light from Tony. Then he speak with smoke coming out from his mouth,

"As someone from the old country, having new family here is the thing which puts a smile in my face"

"But you know what can make it better? A round of poker" as he take a pack of cards out of his pocket and shuffles them.

Joseph, also nicknamed Heartbeat, was strolling around the streets when he bumped into High-Society surrounded by a crowd.

He decided to loiter around the crowd, eavesdropping for potential information that might do him any good.

Instead of gaining any, he himself were asked to share some. To reveal what brought him happiness - what made him smile.

He already had wasted some time now, so he decided to play along. It's a new year, so might as well step out of the shadows once in a while.

"When I see my family having fun, my friends having a drink, I believe I always feel something... in here." he spoke nervously, pointing with his right hand at his chest, where his heart must be located at.

"For what do we live, if not for our kin?" asked Joseph rhetorically.

He would then step back, away from the crowd if none paid him any notice, continuing on the path he had originally taken.

Thoros thinks long and hard about this question as he takes a drink from his flask, puts it back in his jacket pocket and smiles as he suddenly remembers what makes him happy. So happy. 

I think for me it has to be the rum. Ever I since I found myself waking up in this land of terrors and no magic, I have embraced the rum even more than I used to in my previous life. 

So any time I get an invitation to a wedding(hopefully with an open bar) or to any other gathering or host an event for my family, it puts a smile on my face.