I'm sorry it's not a poem, lyrics or a short story. For some reason, I just wanted to talk about smiles, and as it would be a little awkward to call someone up for the sole purpose of this topic, I thought it best to put in a blog post.
Smiles. Why can one smile make you think about someone completely differently? Why do we pay so much attention to them that we can tell when someone is faking it? What makes a smile great or pretty? That is, is fore familiarity with the person a requirement?
What inspires this blog post is a music group I've discovered recently. The thing is, my first exposure to them was actually over a year ago, but I didn't start habitually youtubing them until recently when I came across a different video in which they smiled. All of a sudden, I'm in love with them! All of sudden, they seem beautiful in all of their videos, whereas upon my initial viewing (before I saw the grin) I thought they were just weird and experimental in their appearance, to say the least. And the music? At first not my thing, but it definitely grew on me, so much so I'm going to buy an album.
But maybe, I'm completely off. Maybe I made the whole thing up about seeing their smiles and that somehow made their music better. But maybe, it was still their smiles that made me feel drawn and open to what they were offering, their smiles that made me interested and convinced me there was a depth I wanted to delve into.
I'd hate to say something to the contrary of all smiles being beautiful, but I've certainly noticed that I don't experience everyone's smile the same. How normal is that? Among my friends it tells me how they're feeling, but among strangers it might actually send my head reeling from the...profoundness of it.
As for me, I saw a friend recently who I hadn't seen in a while, and I grinned the whole time we sat in Starbucks, in spite of myself. I was just so happy just to see her. That kind of thing, my friends, does not happen very often. For me to smile usually takes wit and humor, dialogue and comical action, not something so trivial as seeing someone's face.
My concluding thought on this matter is that I hope someone out there enjoys my smile as much as I enjoy the one in this picture.
I've noticed I enjoy smiles and smiling a lot more recently. At those moments when you make eye contact with a stranger, I began smiling at them. It's interesting reading their results. Sometimes they just smile back, but at other times their whole face lights up and I can see that a little part of their day was made better.
ReplyDeleteI love smiles! :)