Smiles all around.

'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 and they smile back and they don't seem so scary anymore, their face softens and their eyes shine bright and my heart melts just a little by the gesture, a smile changes it all and today is a good day.

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