Quiet
recently, I read an article , which talked about cultures that smile the most
and can you guess in what place in India was. It was 124th
on the list. Denmark
was No.1. What does this imply?
Does
this mean that Indians are a set of serious people?
Does
it mean that we have a poor sense of humour?
Does
it mean, we are so busy that we do not find the time to smile? Of course not.
What
then is stopping us from smiling. I think it is because we attach too much of
ego to our conscious living. We smile only at a selected list of people, who we
think or near and dear to us. We never get to smile at the waiter at the
restaurant, but we are fast to complain that the waiter is not courteous. We do
not smile at a co-passenger on a bus or train, with whom we travel a long
distance. We are sometimes comfortable travelling a few hundred miles without
even speaking a single word and we say people are not friendly. Remember, the
good old nature’s law applies in this well, “ What you sow, so will you reap”.
Share a smile and see how many smile responses you get. Start from today. Be
happy to know, that smiling is a learned behaviour. This gives you great scope,
to think and start afresh on cultivating the habit of smiling . It is just about consciously lifting the two muscles on
the side of your mouth.
Smile
is the greatest gift bestowed upon human beings. Animals don’t smile. A smile
is meant as a friendly acknowledgement of another member of the human race. So
let us start smiling. Don’t wait for the other person to smile first. Be the
first to smile. You have nothing to lose. You only have a lot to gain. Smile at
the watchman, driver, tea stall vendor, receptionist, client, whoever you share
physical space and time with. Most of our faces look better when we smile.
Don’t be shy, show your teeth and speak the only language that connects the
whole world.
Happy Reading,
D.
Senthil Kannan
Article dated Sep'06
Article dated Sep'06
