Viral Happiness

I drove by a woman on the sidewalk. She didn’t appear to be on the phone. She hunched over with her elbows close and her face scrunched up and shook her hair around and then sprung her hands and her chin up to the sky and appeared to shout with glee.

It feels very intimate to share joy. And yet when someone else does it you don’t notice it as uncomfortable or confessional, you just feel happier.