Sharing a smile can make a difference, make a day, and even change your mind or maybe just change your way.
A smile seems like such a simple gesture.
A smile can warm a spirit, change a heart and bring hope back to life or loved lost.
Every smile is different and unique, just like our fingerprint; there are no two that are the same.
What people don't often think about is what are the many ways we can share a smile are? Should one look up the definition of a smile it would say: A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth.
It is denoted or characterized as pleasure, happiness, and amusement.
A smile can also be a display of anxiety, grimace or disapproval.
There can be large differences between cultures as a smile can come across as disingenuous or artificial.
But a smile is so much more than a textbook definition.
A smile is our universal language.
A smile is most definitely not just a curvature of the lips.
It is a reflection of the heart, a twinkle in an eye, a new energy that breathes life into a room.
A smile is undoubtedly one of our greatest acts of kindness and our best asset.
A smile can actually not only change a life, it can save a life.
Most of us have heard by now the heartwarming stories of a young person contemplating suicide and even planning the trivial of details in doing so from folding their clothes, to taking out the trash so the loved one that found their lifeless body...
wouldn't have to do their chores after.
But because someone had befriended them, or just happened to smile their way...
that day, it changed their decision, moved their heart, and generated a new start.
A favorite saying is a quote from Mother Theresa, "We don't know all the good a smile can do.
" One never knows what one is going through, so what does it hurt to simply share your smile.
You may make more of a difference than you will ever know.
A smile affects us not only physically, but socially, emotionally and spiritually.
How wonderful it would be for all of us, especially during this time of bullying and suicide, to remember the final and most important definition of a smile is to bestow a blessing.
A smile seems like such a simple gesture.
A smile can warm a spirit, change a heart and bring hope back to life or loved lost.
Every smile is different and unique, just like our fingerprint; there are no two that are the same.
What people don't often think about is what are the many ways we can share a smile are? Should one look up the definition of a smile it would say: A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth.
It is denoted or characterized as pleasure, happiness, and amusement.
A smile can also be a display of anxiety, grimace or disapproval.
There can be large differences between cultures as a smile can come across as disingenuous or artificial.
But a smile is so much more than a textbook definition.
A smile is our universal language.
A smile is most definitely not just a curvature of the lips.
It is a reflection of the heart, a twinkle in an eye, a new energy that breathes life into a room.
A smile is undoubtedly one of our greatest acts of kindness and our best asset.
A smile can actually not only change a life, it can save a life.
Most of us have heard by now the heartwarming stories of a young person contemplating suicide and even planning the trivial of details in doing so from folding their clothes, to taking out the trash so the loved one that found their lifeless body...
wouldn't have to do their chores after.
But because someone had befriended them, or just happened to smile their way...
that day, it changed their decision, moved their heart, and generated a new start.
A favorite saying is a quote from Mother Theresa, "We don't know all the good a smile can do.
" One never knows what one is going through, so what does it hurt to simply share your smile.
You may make more of a difference than you will ever know.
A smile affects us not only physically, but socially, emotionally and spiritually.
How wonderful it would be for all of us, especially during this time of bullying and suicide, to remember the final and most important definition of a smile is to bestow a blessing.