Trying to smile even when things are not optimal

Yesterday, I received the heart-stopping telephone call that my daughter had been in an car accident.  I was told that she was all right.  THAT was the most important thing, the only thing that mattered.  Yes the car has a couple thousand dollars worth of damage, but cars can be repaired.  Haven't heard from a friend in several days and am wondering--have I become a pest, an albatross, a pain?  Or is my friend locked in a closet somewhere?  Or perhaps the email service is giving him trouble?  Wondering, for all the good it does.  And then off to go shopping for work, and while I was gone, my fellow colleagues sang happy b'day and the b'day boy served cake.  Came back to most of the cake gone, and the feeling that I had been excluded from the party.  Trying to tie up lose ends to go away overnight. More stress.  In the midst of it all, I am trying to smile, and to make others smile.  I did that today when a young man stopped to buy flowers on the way to pick up his special friend at the airport.  When he saw the bouquet that I put together, his eyes sparkled and he smiled.