Smiling Is the Best Medicine

No specific reason is required to laugh. Laugh because you want to laugh! This theory is applicable to every circumstance. A rosy face of a belle dame with a dazzling smile at the corners of her soft lips will certainly arrest young hearts. However, there are many fashionable gals who wear plastic smiles. Theirs are "commercial" smiles and they use their dazzle to entertain others. Most of the time, though, people forget to laugh. With day-to-day tremendous mental stress and unmanageable workloads, people wear their gloominess on their faces. They call it the magnitude of personality. Any gloomy face seems to be the by-product of such an awkward mindset. However, I like to see a smiling face.

I know a person who never smiles. He is a teacher at our grammar school in India. His large rounded face is like a vast sepulchre where people are buried. I have no intention to shrug off all my pleasure and happiness.

On the other hand, I knew a sweet girl who always smiled for me. On my way to school, I used to see Olivia grinning with an open heart. Her razor-sharp smile mingled with a shaft of morning sunlight always acted as an elixir to revive the lost elegance of life. My young heart still aches for her. Her charming face was always a matter of deep attraction for me. I loved to go to school because I would make eye-to-eye contact with her.

Frankly speaking, a smiling face is the best healer for all sorts of mental diseases. Doctors should advise their patients to smile. However, modern society is different. We are now reeling with pain, poverty, suffering, war and unemployment. An unemployed youth has to wear a plastic smile when interviewing. A professional clown is paid to make people laugh.

Amazing! Money purchases smiles. Is it called a mechanical smile? Is a clown fully satisfied to perform just because he is getting paid to make people laugh? I don’t know the exact answer. It is true that without doing this job, his family members might not have dinner on the table. Therefore, he must market his playful gestures to generate his audiences' mechanical smiles. It is called interdependence. Vitamin M (money) and laughter are interlinked. There is another exciting term ILU (I Love You). On every V-Day I express my inner love by delivering this message “ILU” to my sweetheart. A tincture of smile lies embedded in these three letters. That’s great and superb.

A smiling face of a child is the cynosure of attraction. A child's smile is pure and original. The extreme pressure of our industrial revolution and modern civilization will never overtake the purity of a childish laugh. While adults will wear their corporate, plastic and mechanical smiles, we will always be balanced by the charisma of young hearts.

I hope that love and laughter will form the new world in which everyone will naturally smile — an original smile! That will be the greatest win of all.