Outings and vacations come with many twists and turns. However, this was an unexpected twist that I will never forget. While on my most recent outing to the beautiful Table Rock Lake in southern Missouri, I met two thirteen-year-olds. And although the story of how we met this young man and his friend is cloudy, our first interaction occurred on the boat dock as my friend and I posed for pictures.

He photobombed our picture (pictured above) and we laughed and assumed that would be the extent of our interaction with this boy. Later on that evening we ended up hanging out with these boys out of boredom. We allowed the young men to chauffeur us around the quaint lakeside neighborhood on their gas golf cart.

As we drove around we talked and laughed, mostly at ourselves for befriending such young friends, we all enjoyed ourselves. As we drove around, I began to notice a pattern in the first, and main, boy we met. He would always smile and make faces at the people who were outside. I couldn't make out the face he was making and if it was a positive or negative look.

Once he turned his head and I could see exactly what he was doing I asked him, "Ethan, why do you keep blowing everyone kisses and smiling. Do you know them?"

He responded with "I just blow everyone kisses because it makes their day" and at that moment I realized what all there was to life.

You can draw it out to categories and biological reasons for life, however, this boy, at such a young age had already figured out the key to life and how to be happy. When you make others happy, if it's as simple as being silly like my new friend Ethan or if it is an out of the way gesture for someone, making someone else happy is how you, in turn, can be happy.