Make the world smile

I heard one of the best questions I've ever listened too the other day, a question that might actually change the world..."What, besides writing a check, could we do to change this?"
Well, I don't know what you can do, but I do know what I can do. I'm going to make the world smile, one face at a time. I've made it my business to make smiles happen, to create memories devoid of pain and frustration. Memories emboldened on little pieces of paper that will remind people of a happy day, a happy face, a happy life. In the face of all the tortures of the world I feel, as most do, powerless. A world filled with violence and pain can be soothed just simply with a smile and kind word a hug even. Happiness will not feed the hungry or shelter the forgotten. Happiness will make the pain more endurable and that's what we have to do in this state of change. I feel we as a planet nation are on a precipice of peace. This global peace will not happen overnight and likely we will not be able to measure it with any device conjured by scientists. This peace is internal, eternal and is already here. My only drive is to peel off the fear and anger hiding it, by making those war torn faces smile. One moment of levity in an otherwise burden life can be the catalyst for greater people than myself to do greater things than I can imagine. I say if you want to change the world, change your face - Smile. In the future our children's children can read in books how we started a revolution of happiness. Scholars will wax and wane about who started being happy first, they will call up world leaders of the peace movements and strong people fighting all the odds, but what if it was you? What if you were the first person to smile, the first person to give your love to someone who needed it more than he deserved it. What if it was you that smiled at the right person on the right day and took the anger out of one guarded heart? Call it trite and naive that a smile can change the world, and I shrug my shoulders at you. I say be naive, be trite and common, just fill your days with love, hugs and happiness, fill them so full with it that there is no room for anything else. Fill your life so full of love that it spills out onto those that cannot grasp it for themselves. I say stand up for yourself and everyone on this little rock in the universe, brandish your teeth and scream I am Happy! In spite of everything you want to do to me, I am Happy and I want you to be happy with me, so let us Smile together. Plus if you smile for no reason, soon the reason will show up. Here I am waiting for my reasons to smile more, and when those reasons come and go, my smile will stand firm in the face of all aridity and disenchantment. I smile because the world is a beautiful place and worth being happy for. So Keep Smiling and world will smile with you.

Written by Sarazann
Posted on 10/03/12