I was walking down the street one day and a thought crossed my
mind, “lend me a smile”. I decided to smile at everyone who passed me by, and
since I’m one of those people who likes to wear a smile it wasn’t a hard thing
to do.
So I wore my smile and waited to see people’s reactions
- Some smiled back at me ( mission accomplished )
- Some just give me a wondering smile (well at least I got them thinking)
- Some shook their heads & looked at me like I’m an insane person XD
Though I different reactions I felt that my goal was achieved which
was lending a smile
You may ask me why am I saying that I’m lending a smile and not
giving one, well its simple its cuz I’m actually lending the person a smile,
and I’ll get an interest on it too. You’ll ask again how come, I’ll explain it
to you.
It’s lending a smile cuz I’ll get it back, if I say I’m giving you
a smile it means it’s yours and I’ll gain nothing. But that’s not the case with
smiles, cuz when I lend you a smile, you smile back at me which is my gain cuz I’ll
be more cheerful seeing you smile back.
About the interest I’m getting well let’s see, if I made you smile you become more cheerful,
which means that you’ll be smile to other people too ( and one of those people
is ought to pass by me and lend me a smile ). You’ll be more efficient in whatever
you do and you’ll be optimistic about
life which will affect the place you’re present at ( again that will involve me
cuz I may be a person who need a service from you and since you’re cheerful you’ll
be nicer and more efficient)
So let’s lend a smile to people around us cuz one way or the other
it’ll get back to you. Remember the 3 reactions I told you about earlier,
though not all of them where a positive reaction but all of them meant that my
goal was accomplished.
You’ll ask how come well I guess we can both agree that the one who
smiled back borrowed that smile from me and is ready to spread it. And the one
who give me a wondering smile was effected, cuz for that min there I made him
wonder why am I smiling and while walking with that wondering smile a few
people will pass his whom will smile cuz of him.
About the thought I was insane well maybe they won’t change now,
but as the smiles get spread around it will finally get to them.
So let’s make a deal try it for a day, go out and wear a smile,
just a sweet innocent smile and see what happens with you, and notice how you
feel afterwards, and if you can say the magic words while dealing with people –
yea the Magic words those small words like (thank you, please, excuses me) - it
really makes a difference. Those little though they’re small and may appear to be insignificant have a great felt effect on the society, they remind us with humanity.
Hanaa Al-Gawish
