A Smile... so simple?

 
Smile might be the shortest distance between 2 people but sometimes it can be the hardest thing to do!! Especially for those can’t fake a smile. Its funny how people can fake a smile. It is an art though mastered by few.  I often end up in a confused expression while posing for a snap and when asked to smile! Can a Smile be asked?

Humans and Monkeys are the only 2 animals who can smile atleast scientifically. But I have seen my Julie(pet dog) often smiling at me. Which is one unique eternal feeling when seen! So what is a smile?. Is it simply a stretch of some facial muscles or is it connected to feelings and thoughts and nervous discharge of electric signals? Hmmm well its worth a thought.

You smile at different occasions and some times during your sleep or just a thought or a sweet funny memory makes you smile.  I always believe that a smile has to evolve from your heart to you lips and enlightened by your eyes. 

A small child smiles when u make different funny faces! Little did he/she know about feelings and emotions. May be that’s what we call innocence. As they grow up he turns intelligent and somewhere loses innocence.  Kids give good pose(smile) when asked to smile. Most of the time it’s an imitation of what they see and for rest of the life it remains in them.  So that becomes a “Standard Smile” expression for them when asked to smile thereafter.  Then until they grow up and start thinking about beauty and the way they look makes them adapt a better way to smile. Now ego and self-consciousness plays their part in manufacturing a smile.

As we grow up we learn {some do}. We do realize at some point that smiling and laughing a lot actually affects your life style and the way you look at it. We want to spend more time with our loved friends with whom we laugh without being self-conscious and without the ego cage! People make their judgment about you without any fact (perception) and they will judge you no matter what. How you respond to their judgment depends on what you are.  End of the day who cares about what they think about you because they don’t live your life but you actually do!

Ending on a note by some random stranger: “ You don’t know yourself unless something bad/hard happens to you ” ..  How you deal with pressure, stress, happiness, success and failure actually shapes you into YOU. So smile and make people smile. Don’t use your muscles instead use your heart and eyes..