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Taroudant, Morocco- A smile is the physical manifestation of an emotion or a feeling of spiritual satisfaction, more or less permanent, that some people call happiness. A true smile comes from the heart, more precisely, from the harmony and satisfaction that is magically woven between the heart and the mind, between our feelings and our conscious aware of the external world that surrounds us. There is no slight doubt that there lives a single person on this earth who voluntarily refuses to spend his life in a permanent state of contentment. However, the doors leading to this mysterious feeling, which is probably unique to the human race, are not all the times easy to find and hardly accessed easily by anyone.
A smile is probably the easiest thing you can get from a person be it a friend, a relative, a lover, or just a passerby. Out of courtesy, and a s a cultural practice, people do exchange this facial expression whenever and anywhere they meet, yet most of the time this smile is no more than a facial gesture that scarcely reflects our inner side and our emotional state of well-being. We flash smiles at each other. We laugh at some comic situations. But, do we really feel and enjoy those smiles we wear on our faces? If not, where have those pleasing smiles gone?
It happens most of the times to start laughing, as a response to a joke or to a funny scene, and suddenly you stop to notice that these vibrations of the face muscles and the extension of the lips to reach the ears has no taste, no pleasure and lack any inner backgrounds. Simply, it doesn’t come from the bottom of your heart. Then you discover how miserable you are, and how desperately you need to quench something inexplicable in your inside that is still unsatisfied. Something weird in our heart that looks vacant at the absence of a real and pleasurable smile.
Like the other biological needs that are necessary to our bodies to remain alive, a true smile is all that our hearts need to keep life running in each vein, our minds need to boost energy in each cell and our faces need to look sparkling and full of liveliness. For this specific reason, men and women, children and youth, poor and rich are all in pursuit of a natural smile that may take away the stress and pain from their aching hearts. Yet, the means that lead to such emotional comfort and intense joy are believed to be various and varied.
Most people mistakenly link happiness, which is behind the smiles drawn on people’s faces, to the external material properties. A new computer, car, house or any expensive material object may draw a big smile on one’s face or even enters happiness to one’s heart for a moment. But can these objects grant a person a perpetual happiness? You may say yes, but what if, by any chance you happen to lose those objects, would you remain happy? I don’t think so.
Associating your inner emotional state with any external conditions means implicitly abandoning your emotional well being to an external factor that will, therefore, have a moving force on your inner stability. This unfortunately is unhealthy. A sane person is the one who tries to build his/her happiness from within. A natural smile which has roots deep in our hearts cannot come from outside, precisely, from the facilities of life, but from inside our hearts or our beloved one’s intense joy and satisfaction.
A smile therefore is, I believe, the manifestation of our conscious reconcilement with our selves that can only be done through a deliberate glance to our hearts away from the absurdities of life.
So, dear friends, don’t look for your happiness anywhere, because the seeds of your lost smiles are hidden in the bottom of your or your beloved one’s hearts. Irrigate them with care and love to enjoy perpetual bouquets of smiles on each other’s faces.
