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A smile: A lethal weapon, or a cure?

We are familiar with the smile and what it symbolizes, although it can also be used for nefarious purposes. A smile is, often used as a gesture of expressing love, nor affection but it has also become the billionaires and unscrupulous politicians' most utilized lethal weapon.

 In this modern life of a generation of poor communication, whereby every entity is glued to their mobile end devices while their thumbs move quicker than a cheetah pursuing a herbivore. We've grown accustomed to smiling at our smartphones and our first reaction being to frown whenever we come across humans, unless they possess materials that are appealing to us. That's the life we live, in these present times.

 The less people use a smile to connect with one another, the more segregated they become which gives unscrupulous politicians the power to use those fake smiles to win their attention or, rather to attain power. We're a generation of poor communication, and it's so rife to a point whereby you can no longer smile and be polite to a woman without her thinking you're making advances.

We barely communicate effectively, we often assume that communication has taken place whenever our eyes meet while being oblivious to the outcome of both parties' thoughts.

Without verbal communication, it may be a bit more harder to know how your interlocutor feels or thinks but a smile is the only non-verbal form of communication that produces a positive outcome.

 We've been programmed to believe that a smile symbolizes imbecility or weakness, while being oblivious that it's a lethal weapon utilized by politicians to attain power and control people's minds.

A smile is a master key that opens every frowning face of an individual that possesses dubious power from frowning for no apparent reason. A smile is a master key to every lock. It opens up doors before words even intervene. It, often dictates the mood or the reaction before the conversation has even commenced.

It is both a cure and a lethal weapon. It is the reason why deleterious capitalists gain power, it is the capitalist's most potent weapon before the mind of the prospect. Politicians, also depend on it to deceive and fleece the general population. It is reason why an ornary adult's mean mug is easily broken by a non-age. Smile is the most positive body language, nor signal. Even a thumb can't compare. Why is it that it's no longer as ubiquitous as it was in public spaces?

Why would people rather smile at their phones than at other humans? Where has the universe gone wrong? We need to smile often, show love more often and perpetuate the culture of learning to engage in conversations with strangers in public places, instead of putting on our headsets. We could learn a lot from one another instead of prioritizing our egos. Ego breeds stagnancy.

Smile. You'll gain more than you can ever anticipate with just a smile, let alone you could cure all the ego and hate that has engulfed our subconscious minds.   

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