Imagine the face of person whom you most admire. What is the first thing which attracts you and makes you feel happy? It has to be the smile! A smile can transform your face, and any person in front of you will be mesmerized. He just cannot say a harsh word, even if he had intended to. A smile also has the quality of making a simple and plain face look beautiful. It also makes an old lady with wrinkles on the face look attractive. You can smile the blues away on many a depressing day and it can have a positive effect on everyone near you. Although there can be a dozen reasons why you should keep on smiling day after day, but let us look at the significant 5.
1. Helps in Winning Friends – A smile certainly lights up your face and makes you look lovely. It helps foster better relations with the people around you. It can make people look at you positively. A smile is the best way to win friends. Even if you have a lot of ugly features on your face, a smile can put all these in the shadows and accentuate your beauty. The person who receives the smile feels on top of the world. He feels comforted by this positive show of cordiality.
2. Helps In Restoring Faith – When you smile, you feel bathed in the warmth of sunlight with the dismal clouds of despair vanishing. It makes you feel that everything is alright around you. It helps you develop faith in your own values. A smile can turn you on to the extent that you feel like living life king size even if you had felt down in the dumps a few minutes earlier. It will inspire you to do good things in life.
3. Helps in Driving the Blues Away – You may have noticed a sad and desolate looking face light up when you smile at him. You can smile warmly at patients in a hospital and they will feel happy once again. Their sad, lifeless eyes will light up with hope and they will forget their depression over their illness for a while. The innocent toothless smile of a baby can certainly make the day for a mother and help her work again with renewed vigor.
4. Helps in Improving Business – You may have had the opportunity to deal with many kinds of shop assistants when you go shopping. You will surely have been put off by the surly assistant who hated showing you things. But the sweet lady who kept smiling at you was able to sell you more than you ever intended to buy. A smile can help build better customer relations and help the company build more business and goodwill.
5. Helps in Making the World a Better Place – A smile costs nothing, yet it can help change the world. It radiates warmth in all directions and touches every soul in comes in contact with. It is a magical therapy to instill life in others and it comes totally free of cost. It can have the chain effect of passing on and brightening and recharging the whole humanity.
There is a need for a lot more smiles in this world. We have to let go of the negativity, sorrow, sadness and despair. A smile should come from your heart and it will surely light up the lives of many others as well.
