Jagmohann Sharma
Walking on a busy thoroughfare in an urban milieu or even amidst a rural scenario, a conscious and discerning individual gets struck with a profound realisation: The faces of people display and appalling lack of inspiring and pleasant tribute; the smile. No inviting, inspiring and invigorating smiles. Instead, what greets the observer with rapier sharp incisiveness is the frown, the scowl.
Why is it so..?
Has happiness bid adieu to humans..?
The tensions and existential predicaments of modern existence have perhaps eroded the smile and made the frown the hallmark of psychic, emotional and spiritual disorientation.
Oscar Wilde, the famous British playwright, once remarked that “Wrinkles Indicate Where Smiles have been.”
Ostensibly Wilde had old people in mind. Times have changed, values have undergone a radical metamorphosis and these days young boys and men, perhaps consider the frown or the scowl as the ‘Jewel’ of the face to attract and impress the opposite sex.
A’la, right from angry young man Amitabh of Zanjeer, psycho King Khan of Darr or Baazigar, Sanjay Dutt in Khalnayak, or recently Bobby Deol and Ranbir Kapoor in Animal, Anil Kapoor in Fighter and now R. Madhavan in Shaitaan or any other Bollywood heartthrob of contemporary females. Ironically in real life the reel life does not pay. You won’t be getting anything by being so.
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The smile which lightens the face and lends it an endearing exuberance can be far-far more a potent weapon to impress the opposite sex rather than the abominable scowl, frown or a grin. If experience and knowledge are any guides, smiling guys can attract more girls, because the smile is a cue to openness and receptivity, reflecting how much we value someone else. Also if you are not smiling, there are chances that you may annoy your steady girlfriend as your frown may disconnect “Her- Majesty” and give her the feeling that something is wrong either with her or your own self. At the same time, making girl friends cannot be the only objective in one’s life because “Aur Bhi Gham Hain Zamane Mein Mohabbat Ki Siva”.
Different and graver problems do beset one’s life. A young guy has to encounter many other fields; he has to undertake many other pursuits besides undertaking other unavoidable issues of life. Nevertheless importance of smiling cannot be ignored in any sphere of life. Every human being, these days, complains of depression tension and frustration. I am not a medico, albeit, I hold the view that smiling and laughing can help us overcome such complaints to a great extent giving us maximum relaxation and succour. Laughter is the best medicine and we smile, naturally when the brain after processing information, sends message through pathways to the skin to get us to express facial emotion in the form of a smile. But even by deliberately adopting a smile, the facial muscles we move, send message back through the same pathways changing our emotional stage for the better. On the other hand anger makes us lose our strings of sanity and plunges our mind into rampant destruction of our surroundings: what ever it may be; material or abstract. Whenever brain is hot i.e. when we are in a fit of rage, we may start pulling our own hair breaking crockery, kicking anything coming in the way and waste our energy through destruction.
Anger makes us destructive and restless and in such a situation, if we try to think of a humorous incident that had happened in the past and smile or laugh, it will definitely cool down our brain and induce a positive feeling and instead of destroying things, we may do something creative.
Don’t you think friends that the solution of life’s problems might be the right under our noses i.e. on our lips. If not the solution in itself, it may, for sure, help us step on the path to the solution in a cool positive way.
Today we are celebrating the International Day of Happiness that continues to serve as a platform for advocating for happiness and well-being as essential components of human development. My motto behind this writeup is simply to share this secret of wiping off frown and wearing a smile on the face that is a simple and easy way to achieve the stage of happiness. On this day let’s pledge continue to embrace its message and work together to create a world where happiness is not a privilege, but a shared reality! Let’s follow this priceless way to feel better, look better and live better. To end up, I would like to say…Wipe that Silly frown off your face and keep smiling.
It pays.
(The author is a youth influencer and a radio broadcaster.)
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