PEACE BEGINS WITH A SMILE
BY ADMIN PUBLISHED August 7, 2021, UPDATED January 3, 2023
“The world may burn down, and the sky may fall,
But peace will persist, it’ll survive through it all”
We, the humankind, on one hand call ourselves the most ‘intelligent species’ but on the other hand, we wage wars, spread violence, preach hate and try to destroy our own kind just to keep our heads high. Every day, every hour, every minute, every second – there is a fight going on. And one out of every tenth leads to self-destruction. Leads to death. And all this happens because we forbid ourselves from backing down and thinking rationally. Thinking with a mind as cool as cucumber.
It is high time when we need to understand peace does not only affect global tranquillity but impacts harmony at the lowest of levels. Our own peace of mind gets influenced by our surroundings and our behaviour towards others.
If you wonder what if something could be changed that would alter the universe forever? Then, just imagine how your day would have been if that one single argument that you had, could have been avoided. Imagine how good you would have felt on purposely dodging that absurd fight. Imagine how a sweet smile could have made all your current thoughts, a reality.
Piece by piece only can you achieve world peace -begin with yourself, your own life. Start with your family, your neighbours and then move on to strangers. Try not to lose your calm the next time when your pizza arrives late, and instead pass a smile to the delivery boy and see how relieved he would feel. You’ll realize the contagiousness and magic of a smile at that moment because trust me, you’ll be grinning from ear to ear and the pizza that you ordered would surely be tasting a hundred times better.
From making someone’s day a little brighter to avoiding World War III, there’s nothing a single smile cannot do. It is all that takes to transform the world to a better place for it is proven that you might not think fondly of the person you fought with a decade later, but you will always lovingly recall the one who smiled at you. That is how the human mind works.
So, let smile be your door to the world. Try to smile at the world and you’ll see the world will smile back at you!
~SHARANYA GUPTA
