VOL. XVI, NO. 9
FEBRUARY 28, 1975
Big Smiles Are Great Treasures
By PEGGY BURCHARD
Have you ever been so depressed that you feel like ending it all? You mope around all day acting like you just lost your best friend. You feel as though your world is about to come tumbling down. Then you see a friend or perhaps only an acquaintance who greets you with a huge, glowing smile. Couldn't that one simple smile very well brighten your whole day?
A smile can make the most depressed person happy again. That is why smiles are so treasured.
No person can live a life empty of love, affection, and smiles. Without these things one becomes a barrel of nothingness. Love is the single most important emotion that there is. A problem is created when people can't or won't express this love.
Most people feel that by showing their affection and love for their friends they will be laughed at or looked down on by those "too cool" to show their love. This kind of person will really lose out in the end.
Have you ever been so depressed that you feel like ending it all? You mope around all day acting like you just lost your best friend. You feel as though your world is about to come tumbling down. Then you see a friend or perhaps only an acquaintance who greets you with a huge, glowing smile. Couldn't that one simple smile very well brighten your whole day?
A smile can make the most depressed person happy again. That is why smiles are so treasured.
No person can live a life empty of love, affection, and smiles. Without these things one becomes a barrel of nothingness. Love is the single most important emotion that there is. A problem is created when people can't or won't express this love.
Most people feel that by showing their affection and love for their friends they will be laughed at or looked down on by those "too cool" to show their love. This kind of person will really lose out in the end.
American people are not accustomed to hugging and kissing friends. Our society frowns on this sort of behavior. Our society, however, does not frown upon smiles.
Smiles are so easy to administer; yet sometimes it appears that smiling is a strenuous activity. If a person is down, lonely, and depressed, he doesn't feel much like smiling. This is the time when each of us should find it in our hearts to give away one of our smiles.
A smile happens in a flash, but the memory of it lasts forever. It. cannot be bought, borrowed, or stolen. But it is of no earthly value unless it is given away. So if in your hurry you meet someone who is too weary to smile, give him one of yours. No one needs a smile quite as much as he who has none to give.
Smiles are so easy to administer; yet sometimes it appears that smiling is a strenuous activity. If a person is down, lonely, and depressed, he doesn't feel much like smiling. This is the time when each of us should find it in our hearts to give away one of our smiles.
A smile happens in a flash, but the memory of it lasts forever. It. cannot be bought, borrowed, or stolen. But it is of no earthly value unless it is given away. So if in your hurry you meet someone who is too weary to smile, give him one of yours. No one needs a smile quite as much as he who has none to give.
