"I wave to people because I live positive, and believe small relationships add up," Jim tells PTBOCanada. "Both of us feel better when I wave."
Jim believes that small gestures add up in life, and make everyone better. Hence the waving and smiling. "Even a smile is contagious," he says. Jim laughs when he says he's even made friends with neighbourhood dogs that used to bark at them—he waves and smiles at them, too. He says he stops and talks to many people who he has gotten to know through his jogs around town, and developed friendships with them.