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True smiles

How often do you smile a day? Do you smile with pleasure when you have your favourite dish for lunch ? Do you wear a charming smile when you return a compliment, or when you are speechless, but still want to say something without words? Or maybe a sheepish smile when your eyes meet the glance of someone you like? So many smiles a day. You should never forget to smile. Smiling is healthy. Smiling is infectious and can mean more to someone than your words.

But is a smile always a smile? How often do we pretend to be all smiles and graces whilst at the same time being melancholic and sad? How often is a smile used to hide and protect our vulnerability? How often is the smile we receive just a mask hiding something like jealousy or hypocrisy?
Nowadays society almost obliges us to be constantly happy, or at least to emanate an air of good humour, a feeling of good spirits and of infinite cheerfulness. A smile. A laugh. An exclamation. We have the urge to show our existence, to smile the pain and the doubts away, to captivate utterly everything in our range.

Never stop smiling. Always keep up the appearances. But is this the right track? Of course there is nothing to say against a sincere enchanting smile, but maybe there are also other values we should not become oblivious of. Such as silence and demurity. A sparkle of modesty, not to be confused with self-diffidence. For instance silence.

Smile. Just smile.

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