When I was little I was taught to always be polite and whenever I’d cross someone in the street, that I was to greet them and smile. Now that was easy in the village, where everybody knew everyone, but I remember it got quite complicated in town. Also there were so many people, and I was so busy greeting everyone, that I quite lost it.
How am I supposed to greet everyone in a crowd? Perhaps that’s in essence why I chose a life in the country in the end, to live in a place where I could greet everybody without getting overwhelmed, haha.
But then it does feel nostalgic, this whole greeting business, and I love to watch the surprise in peoples faces, realising that they are seen by somebody, when I greet them with a smile.
Do you greet random people in the streets?
*This is Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar! Advent calendars are a big tradition where I come from: every day until Christmas Day you prepare a small gift for a loved one, fourandtwenty little surprises. Advent calendars come in beautifully old fashioned prints on cardboard, extra glitter and glory, and each day there’s a little perforated window waiting for you be opened. Others are more elaborate, pretty baskets filled with twenty four numbered parcels, red velvet ribbons and sprigs of fir. The one I’m making for you this season is a different one altogether, it comes in digital form. Unless specially marked, all content is hand-stitched by myself, lovingly compiled and written for your amusement.
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