SMILE - What's it with Smile?

So, what is it with smile? Did you know that it takes 43 muscles to frown and only 13 to smile? So smile, smile, smile and smile - it conserves energy!!

I know it is easy said that done! To most of us putting up a smile is not an easy task, isn't it? Of course we smile to people whom we knew or closed with i.e. friends, colleague, family, etc. but we always tend to reserve when it comes to stranger, or unexpected guest, or acquaintances. There is always the phrase 'Who smile first?' or he smiles then I smile back or 'if she smile then I smile also la' or who bother!! so long I talk nicely and professionally.

However, there is a tendency to put on a smile to important people (people that we knew or close to us) or good looking people e.g. guys tend to smile excessively to attractive ladies. But how often do we put on a smile to people that is totally unattractive or less fortunate people?

To what extent that we should have this smile to to them. What would they think of us? Would they be putting on a smile on us too? Would it be embarassing experience if we smile and that person look back rather strangely? Would you be confortable (or would the other person feels confortable) when you smile to same sex individual? How big could a smile be - whole mouth open?, half mouth open? or merely a closed-mouth smile (not showing teeth that is!)?. Is there a such thing as to what level of smile that we shall put on to a specific groups of people or gender. Anyway, something to ponder love your comment on these.

Here are some sayings about smiling.

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller

The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. ~Author Unknown

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ~Charles Gordy

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Author Unknown

Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown

Everyone smiles in the same language. ~Author Unknown

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ~George Eliot

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade

A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman

Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to. ~Author Unknown

You're never fully dressed without a smile. ~Martin Charnin

A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown