Smile - the cheapest way to buy a little bit of joy !! A smile can really take you places. Smile at someone and watch your interaction transform into something beautiful. A smile is like fairy dust that can spread happiness wherever it falls.
Treat it like a magic wand to end a quarrel with someone you love, to welcome your partner home, to show your child that you care, to broadcast your happiness on a lovely day, even to trick yourself into believing all is well even when you are feeling a little out of sorts! Use it as a conversation opener, an icebreaker, to win over an enemy, to woo a friend, along with a conspiratorial wink, as a thank you, or an apology......
The possibilities are endless.
Share a smile with a fellow jogger in the park, another mother playing with her baby in the winter sunshine, or with a co-passenger in the metro and it may herald the beginning of a new friendship....
A smile goes a long way to show someone you care. Sometimes your smile may be the only sunny spot in someone's dark, cloudy day! Someone might really need your smile that moment, so don't be stingy with it. Smile.
However, there is a flip side to the coin too. Don't go smiling to a funeral or to ask about a neighbour who was robbed clean last night!!! But seriously, you can't go wrong with a smile if you have a normal dose of common sense.
And now for the icing on the cake - it is the surest weapon to defeat those jealous good for nothings who are always trying to show you down!
So smile...be a winner!
©Manic Sylph
