Lend Me A Smile

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