A: A smile!
"A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks." ~Charles Gordy
"You're never fully dressed without a smile." ~Martin Charnin
"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important." ~Janet Lane
"I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful." ~Unknown
Many trends will come and go, and someday I may look at something that I now think is lovely...and wonder what I was thinking. But smiles have been around since the beginning...and I'm pretty sure they are never going to go out of style...though, as scarce as they seem to be in pictures, on billboards, or passing someone on the sidewalk these days - one can only wonder.
It's interesting even to look at a picture of several movie stars or models together. If only one of them is smiling, your eyes are automatically more drawn to that person's face, and they really do appear more lovely. That's one reason I don't really understand why girls these days are all into the "depressed" or "moody" looking pictures of themselves...or the "pouty lip" ones.
What ever happened to an old-fashioned smile? The genuine kind that lights up a room. Who wants to strike up a conversation with someone who looks like they are about rip someone's head off...or dissolve into a muddled puddle of emotions? I know when someone smiles at me, it makes me feel special - like they genuinely care about me, and I quickly feel more comfortable around them.
So, as you ponder what to wear on Sunday...or the trip to the mall, just don't forget to don a smile!
Below are a few more interesting facts about smiles:
- Studies show that a happy person can live up to 9 years longer than a depressed person.
- 72% of people think of those who smile frequently as being more confident and successful.
- 86% of people say that they are more likely to strike up conversations with strangers if they are smiling.
- Bosses are 12% more likely to promote people who smile a lot.
- The effects of a smile are so powerful that even a smile on the telephone produces positive results.
- When someone comes into a room, people are automatically drawn to their face, and a smile provides a warm greeting.
- Studies show that happiness is a by-product of smiling, not the other way around as most people assume.
- A smiling person is judged to be more pleasant, attractive, sincere, sociable, and competent than a non-smiling person.
- Smiling is the only human facial expression that can be recognized at a distance of 300 feet.
- A smile is the most frequently used facial expression; it takes as few as five pairs of facial muscles and as many as all 53 to smile.
- Regardless of the precise number of muscles used, smiling causes far fewer muscles to contract and expand than frowning.
- Smiling releases endorphins and makes us feel better.
- A newborn shows a preference for a smiling face over a non-smiling face.
- There are 18 different kinds of smiles used in a variety of social situations.
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