My God

         'Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other'. Mother Therasa                                 I have learned how important it is to smile and that in life, a smile can go a long way. It's not a hardship to smile, even if we don't feel like smiling it can instantly lift our mood and make things seem better.  A smile can change a person's impression of us as we come across more friendlier and approachable rather than miserable and moody therefore people are more than likely to react positively towards us than negatively. A few times I'll be walking and someone will be walking towards me and perhaps they look a little dodgy, a bit menacing and maybe best to avoid looking them in the eye but instead I smile a...

                   Sometimes we can put on a brave face, a mask to hide our true feelings.  We can be so full of bravado or perhaps quiet and withdrawn to try to deceive people into thinking we are in control, we are sorted, we don't need anyone, but underneath that mask of deception we are a mess and life is in tatters.  Even the toughest of men or the angriest of teenagers, or the shyness of women have something that will strike a nerve and make them crumble, the mention of families or children, whatever it may be, we all have something that will reveal our softer more vulnerable side, our real feelings and it takes a lot of trust, comforting and patience and sensitivity to see beneath the anger, hate, and violence, the timidity and solitude and when we are faced with that which makes us crumble  we become like little children and let the mask slip, we allow  our weakness and vulnerability shine through and we are n...