World Hello Day

World Hello Day is on the national calendar for special days.  We chose to write about this because it’s an easy thing to do and fun too!

On Thursday, you simply need to find ten people to say hello to.  People you know count but more importantly saying hello to strangers is an awesome thing for you to do.

You can do this at school, at work and in your senior living center or nursing home.  Everyone knows how to say hello and it could be interesting to see if a conversation begins after that.

It’s not imperative that a conversation starts, you just simply need to say hello.  Most people will be happy to be greeted and will hopefully respond.

You can do it all morning or all afternoon or space it out during the day.  It’s totally up to you.

The beginning of this day actually began because of the Yom Kippur War back in 1973.  It was started by the McCormack brothers who were distressed by the war.  They used only the money they had at the time and sent letters to as many world leaders as they could.

They wanted to start this day to help bring people together peacefully.  The first responses they got were from fifteen different countries.  That took twelve months.

The good news is that over the past forty-two years others have celebrated this day of saying hello. Now it involves a total of 180 countries!  Amazing really.

We do still have conflicts in our world so this has not solved all worldly conflicts but by you and I taking the time to say hello in each of our encounters it helps to spread goodness and happiness in our own way.

Private Home Health Care believes it is important to connect with people around us so we hope that you can find time to offer hellos to people you meet tomorrow and perhaps on other days too.