The Sticky-Trailed Woman

  What better way to celebrate a mild rainy day with a tornado watch than by blogging. (:
  If there is truly any compatibility between two items in this world, it is Sharpies and sticky notes. (forget cookies and milk!) I hold these two things dear to my heart. I love writing little notes on colorful square pads with bright Sharpies, and just sticking them all over. Sometimes I write random things, like, "I love cheesecake", and others I jot down significant quotes, such as "I myself am made up entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions." (made by Augusten Burroughs, in his Magical Thinking: True Stories) One of my favorite things to do is to write uplifting statements and give them to random people I don't even know. Once I rode the public bus, and I left a stick note saying "Make today's goal to smile at a stranger every place you go." In the dressing room of a TJ Maxx, I left one on the mirror that said, "Step outside your comfort zone today, and go for those bright jeans or wedged shoes." When  I saw a woman looking gloomy at the mall, I wrote her a sticky note that said, "Smile and put your best foot forward, no matter what the circumstances are", and gave it to her without giving her a second glance.
  I wouldn't necessarily say that my reason behind doing this is solely to make someone feel better; that's actually my ulterior motive for doing these deeds. It's just....I love sticky notes so much. And I want others to love them just as much as I do. And what easier way to spread the love, than to spread the sticky notes? Anyways, writing these kinds of things down always tend to be easier than saying it. And I guess that's why they never get said; because it's difficult to articulate things like this. I don't know why no one ever thought about writing these things down, though, because if you ask me, when something is written, it has more meaning. Saying to someone, "Have a great day" is one thing, but writing it is another; you can put a heart next to it, and that person can look back at it all the time to remember that someone really wants them to have a great day. Written things invoke a whole 'nother set of emotions. And the thought that my sticky notes can actually turn somebody's day around..well, that's pretty amazing to me.