A true smile.
Definition: A smile which, when smiled, has the power to
light up someone's whole life, and in that brief, shining moment, nothing is
wrong. Your entire existence is like an explosion of fireworks, like bubbles
sparking, floating in the sun, and for that one glorious moment, you are truly,
unconditionally, boundlessly happy.
As I sit on the soft, luscious grass at the Battlefield,
my laptop screen glaring into my eyes, my cheek caressed by the soft, balmy
breeze and the unhurried melodies of the birds drifting down my ear, my son laughing and running and happy, one of
those rare, true smiles creep across my lips and lift the corners of my mouth
into a wide grin, and I can't help but notice how often we let one of these
moments pass us by.
So, even though summer is well and truly here, I am making myself a summer vow. One true smile everyday. It
can't be that hard. It isn't that hard, as long as we take the time and look
for one.
A true smile like when you just happen to glance out of your
open window before bed, and then stop and gaze, entranced, at the clearest
night sky you've ever seen, and how the stars don't wink, or twinkle, but they
sing for you, the smile for you, a million symphonies all shining down at once,
but it's all silent, the night is silent, because this is not a song to be
heard, they sing to your eyes, a song that you can see in full splendor, and
when you finally turn your head back down to the ground, you carry on smiling,
because in that moment, you know you are the only person to have seen the stars
sing.
True smiles aren't hard to find, as long as you know how to
look.
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