“Have you tried the Gospel Of Smiles? A smile is a sunbeam on the soul which lights up the eye and transfigures the face. It might be easier to frown, but frowns give no light or joy. A smile can scatter gloom and silver-line a cloud. It costs little, but counts for such a lot. In fact, someone has remarked, ‘A smile costs less than electricity–and gives more light.’” An excerpt from the 1990 edition of The Friendship Book Of Francis Gay published by D. C. Thomson and Company.
It is a short blog tonight–about the length of a genuine smile.
In the book Understanding Emotion by psychology professor Dacher Keltner published some years back, the author says that you can see the average smile coming from about 300 feet away. The average smile also lasts only three seconds. As I told you, it was going to be a short blog tonight.
This is the type of smile we all hope for in life. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote: “I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.”
Can you see me smiling?
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Don Jackson
