The Lift Game

The Lift Game is a game that we can play wherever we are and whatever we do. All that is needed are other people. The game is all about making people happy and the more depressed or angry the person we meet is the higher scores we get when we find a way to lift his or her day and make happiness out of those negative feelings.

Yesterday I had a really hard target in a supermarket, but I finally succeeded when we both – the woman behind the counter and I – realized that it is much nicer to be friends than to be enemies. I asked if she had a tough day and she told me about her morning that didn’t start very well, and we started sharing all things that can go wrong every morning if we let them to. When I left I felt like I had won the lottery. Not because I was the one making her smile but because it is so easy to feel happy and fully alive. All we need is a little courage and a willingness to prove that this world is a wonderful place to live in.

To be hostile and ‘closed’ is to make enemies and to open up and take every opportunity to really see and meet someone is to make friends. We can have friends in every corner of the world if we want to. It is all up to us to define the word friends and to walk that extra mile to make it something that is ours to keep