Learn to Smile
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Guess! What is the longest word in English? It's "smiles"! Yet which is arguably the most widely understood language? Again, it's smile! Smile ismagic. No matter where you come from, Russia or Australia, China or Brazil, Canada or South Africa, you can make youself understood with a smile on your face.
However, in reality, it is impossible to keep smiling all the time. Life is not as smooth as a peacefullake. And we may easily get upset with something unpleasant. For instance, you lose in a competition for which you have made great efforts;or another time,you misunderstand your friend and break the longtime friendship, and later find it impossible to regainit. Whatever it may be: not being successful, makingmistakes, and so on, it may make us feel bad. Then what shall we do? Just sinking in unhappiness? Why not learn to smile?
Yes, learn to smile to yourself. Like a lamp, smile can surprisingly lighten up the darkness deep in your heart and bring back what you lose, confidence,courage, persistence, and perhaps passion. Sometimes, the greatest enemy is yourself rather than anyone else; that is to say, sometimes, you are beaten by youself. Learn to smile to yourself, and you can come over yourself. Even when everything goes on well, we also need to learn to smile. Everyone should smile to oneself in a mirror every morning when gets up, and then comes a wonderful day. Not one hundred percent agree? Please have a try!
Life is a big container. Come over yourself is farfrom enough. We have to get along with others, perhaps on every occasion. But there come problems.How to get along with others? What should we do and what should not?
There are no easy answers. But I dare say learning to smile to others will be of great help. Smileshows kindness, which may help to get closer to others; In addition, smile can be more effective than any words in showing encouragement. What I emphasize is that never just smile as a routine without any feeling.It's quite different between a wholehearted smile and a pretended one. So learn to smile to others not only with a purpose of receiving, but of giving.
Still, you may wonder that, smile, who can' t?Why bother to learn? Well, take a reflective enquiry and you will find that smile is not merely a smile, It' s an attitude to life, which guides us; It' s a mirror of our inside, which affects our relationship with others; It' s really something worthy of our attention.
No wonder. Smile is the worldwide-received language. Although life is a mixture of feelings of all sorts, we should as well keep smiling. Then what are you waiting for? Come on and learn to smile!NU2
However, in reality, it is impossible to keep smiling all the time. Life is not as smooth as a peacefullake. And we may easily get upset with something unpleasant. For instance, you lose in a competition for which you have made great efforts;or another time,you misunderstand your friend and break the longtime friendship, and later find it impossible to regainit. Whatever it may be: not being successful, makingmistakes, and so on, it may make us feel bad. Then what shall we do? Just sinking in unhappiness? Why not learn to smile?
Yes, learn to smile to yourself. Like a lamp, smile can surprisingly lighten up the darkness deep in your heart and bring back what you lose, confidence,courage, persistence, and perhaps passion. Sometimes, the greatest enemy is yourself rather than anyone else; that is to say, sometimes, you are beaten by youself. Learn to smile to yourself, and you can come over yourself. Even when everything goes on well, we also need to learn to smile. Everyone should smile to oneself in a mirror every morning when gets up, and then comes a wonderful day. Not one hundred percent agree? Please have a try!
Life is a big container. Come over yourself is farfrom enough. We have to get along with others, perhaps on every occasion. But there come problems.How to get along with others? What should we do and what should not?
There are no easy answers. But I dare say learning to smile to others will be of great help. Smileshows kindness, which may help to get closer to others; In addition, smile can be more effective than any words in showing encouragement. What I emphasize is that never just smile as a routine without any feeling.It's quite different between a wholehearted smile and a pretended one. So learn to smile to others not only with a purpose of receiving, but of giving.
Still, you may wonder that, smile, who can' t?Why bother to learn? Well, take a reflective enquiry and you will find that smile is not merely a smile, It' s an attitude to life, which guides us; It' s a mirror of our inside, which affects our relationship with others; It' s really something worthy of our attention.
No wonder. Smile is the worldwide-received language. Although life is a mixture of feelings of all sorts, we should as well keep smiling. Then what are you waiting for? Come on and learn to smile!NU2
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