Just smile |
As I write this, I have no idea what the next few days will bring, especially considering the profanity-laden post made by the president over the weekend, plus the one Tuesday promising “a whole civilization will die tonight.”
No one ever said he was a diplomat … except maybe him and those who kowtow to him.
But anger, threats and retribution are not what I want to talk about today, especially when just a week ago I was asking people to perform random acts of kindness. And as one of my frequent anonymous critics/ trolls noted on the newspaper’s website last week, “The kindest thing a person can do that’s 100 percent free is simply smile. Smile at the grocery checker, the fast-food drive-through worker, the driver in the car next to you … just smile at complete strangers. Being kind is easy. As Nike would say, just do it.”
While we agree on little, especially regarding the worth of Internet trolls, on this we are in sync. It may sound simplistic, but he’s right, and smiles are powerful tools.
Not all of us smile easily, whether it’s being self-conscious about one’s smile (as
I was from fourth grade when a “friend” criticized my wide smile in a class picture to years in pain because of genetically bad teeth before finally getting new teeth and a new........